cats, dogs, squirrels, and fish could possibly emerge from
this barrel? Could a person who thinks, who becomes happy
or excited, who enjoys listening to music and reading books
possibly step out of it? Of course not! Neither could anyone
like the professors keeping watch over the barrel emerge.
Not only could not one single professor not emerge, but not
even one of the trillions of cells in such a professor's body.
Atoms are lifeless. Can lifeless matter come together to
produce a living, laughing, thinking being?
Of course not; no living thing could ever emerge from
that barrel. Because living things aren't made up of pieces
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Lifeless matter can
never come together
by chance to form a
living creature. Allah
has created the uni-
verse and all living
things from nothing.
