is fully formed and developed, was once a drop of semen, then a clinging clot, then a lump of flesh, then flesh and blood. We know that he did not move himself from one state to another, for we see that, even when his strength and intellect are fully developed, he cannot give himself hearing or sight, nor create a limb for himself. This shows that before his development was complete and his strength and intellect had matured, he was even less capable of doing so, for whatever he cannot do in a state of completeness, he is even less capable of doing in a state of deficiency. We have seen him as a child, then a young man, then a middle-aged man, then an old man. We know that he did not move himself from youth to old age and decrepitude, for even if a person strove to rid himself of old age and decrepitude and restore himself to youth, he could not do so. What we have described thus shows that he is not the one who moved himself through these states. Rather, there is one who moved him from one state to another and ordered him as he is, for he cannot pass from one state to another without someone to bring about that change and govern him.’”

He said:

“Further evidence of this is that cotton cannot turn into