And at the very heart of life on earth - the proteins that control cell chemistry and the nucleic acid (DNA) that carry hereditary instructions - we find these molecules to be identical in all the plants and animals. An oak tree and I (Carl Sagan) are made of the same stuff. If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor.” Cosmos:Carl Sagan,page 24 The above paragraph is taken form the best selling science book ‘Cosmos’ by a great science man and atheist: Carl Sagan,director of Viking mission to mars at NASA. The main point of the above paragraph is that all living things are the same with respect to their fundamental ingredients. All the living things, from virus to human beings, have chromosomes for storing genetic information, the chromosomes are made of DNA just as a cloth or your shirt is made of fine continuous thread. Now coming to another paragraph, but not from Carl Sagans book, but from Nahjulbalagha, the paragraph is as follows, “If you tread on the path of your thinking and reach its extremity it will not lead you anywhere except that the originator of the ant is the same as he who is the originator of the date palm, because every thing has same delicacy and detail and every living being has little difference.” Nahjulbalagha: sermon.183, page 305 A thousand year old copy of NahjulBalagha is still available at the library of Mosul, Iraq. The main point of the above paragraph of Imam Ali (a.s) is same as that of Carl Sagans; that there is very little difference between-living-things. On analysis of the above mentioned paragraphs, it appears as if Carl Sagan and Imam Ali (a.s) are contemporaries, but everyone knows that Imam Ali (a.s) lived 1400 years before Carl Sagan.
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