NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD
English book, PDF p. 127
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 127 ~ open and air rushes in to fill them. A great flow of blood is drawn into the lungs which like a violent draught of air slams shut the little door inside the heart which had hitherto turned the blood away. The Skin, with its vast network of sensitive fibres spread over the body’s surface is equally fascinating. The moment a hot object comes in contact with our skin, or even comes close to it, about thirty thousand “hot cells” feel it, and instantly report it to the brain. Similarly, there are 250,000 “cold cells” within our skin which crowd the brain with messages as soon as contact is made with a cold object. The body then begins to shiver and veins in the skin become dilated in order to make up for the loss of warmth in the body. When intense heat is “reported” to the brain, three million perspiratory glands are activated to release the cool fluid we recognise as perspiration. The nervous system is divided into different parts, one of them being the autonomic branch, which deals with reflex functions that are performed within our body, such as digestion, respiration, heart beat and so on. This autonomic branch is further subdivided into two systems: the sympathetic system, which

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