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THE FACT OF CREATION
In fact, to notice this fact one does not necessarily need to appeal to the complicated results obtained in biochemistry laboratories or geological excavations. The signs of an extraordinary wisdom are discernible in whatever living being one observes. There is a great technology and design in the body of an insect or a tiny fish in the depths of the sea never attained by human beings. Some living beings which even do not have a brain perfectly perform so complicated tasks as not to be accomplished even by human beings. This great wisdom, design and plan that prevails over entire nature no doubt proves to provide solid evidence for the existence of a supreme Creator dominating over whole nature, who is Allah. Allah has furnished all living beings with extraordinary features and showed men the evident signs of His existence and might. In the following pages, we will examine only a few of the countless evidences of Creation in nature.
Bees produce more honey than they actually need and store it in honeycombs. The hexagonal structure of the honeycomb is well-known to everyone. Have you ever wondered why bees construct hexagonal honeycombs rather than octagonal, or pentagonal? Mathematicians looking for answer to this question reached an interesting conclusion: "A hexagon is the most appropriate geometric form for the maximum use of a given area."
The method used in the construction of the honeycomb is also very amazing: bees start the construction of the hive from two-three different places and weave the honeycomb simultaneously in two-three strings. Though they start from different places, the bees, great in number, construct identical hexagons and then weave the honeycomb by combining these together and meeting in the middle. The junction points of the hexagons are assembled so deftly that there is no sign of their being subsequently combined.
To put it more explicitly, God, the creator of these tiny creatures, "inspires" them with what they have to do. This fact was declared in the Qur'an fourteen centuries ago: And your Sustainer has inspired the honey bee: "Prepare for yourself dwellings in mountains and in trees, and in what (men) build; and then eat of all manner of fruit, and find with skill the spacious paths of your Sustainer". There issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought. (Surat an-Nahl, 68-69)
Despite this fact, we see, when we compare the size of a termite and its nest, that termites successfully overcome an architectural project by far 300 times bigger than themselves. Termites have yet another amazing characteristic: if we divide a termite nest into two in the first stages of its construction, and then reunite it after a certain while, we will see that all passage-ways, canals and roads intersect with each other. Termites carry on with their task as if they were never separated from each other and ordained from a single place.
Nothing happens because the head structure of woodpeckers are created as fit for this job. The woodpecker's skull has a "suspension" system that reduces and absorbs the force of the strokes. There are special softening tissues between the bones in its skull.186
A young person can barely detect a sound with a frequency of 20,000 vibrations per second. A bat furnished with a specially designed "sonar system", however, makes use of sounds having a frequency of between 50,000 and 200,000 vibrations per second. It sends these sounds in all directions 20 or 30 times each second. The echo of the sound is so powerful that the bat not only understands the existence of objects in its path, but also detects the location of its swift-flying prey.187
The gnat starts to fly with special sensing systems at its disposal to detect the place of its prey. With these systems, it resembles a war plane loaded with detectors of heat, gas, dampness and odour. It even has an ability to "see in conformity with the temperature" that helps it find its prey even in pitch dark. The "blood-sucking" technique of the gnat comes with an incredibly complex system. With its six-bladed cutting system, it cuts the skin like a saw. While the cutting process goes on, a secretion secreted on the wound benumbs the tissues and the person does not even realise that his blood is being sucked. This secretion, at the same time, prevents the clotting of the blood and secures the continuance of the sucking process. With even one of these elements missing, the gnat will not be able to feed on blood and carry on its generation. With its exceptional design, even this tiny creature is an evident sign of Creation on its own. In the Qur'an, the gnat is accentuated as an example displaying the existence of God to the men of understanding:
Eagles that fly at thousands of meters high have such sharp eyes that they can scan the earth perfectly at that distance. Just as war planes detect their targets from thousands of meters away, so do eagles spot their prey, perceiving the slightest colour shift or the slightest movement on the earth. The eagle's eye has an angle of vision of three hundred degrees and it can magnify a given image around six to eight times. Eagles can scan an area of 30,000 hectares while flying 4,500 meters above it. They can easily distinguish a rabbit hidden among grasses from an altitude of 1,500 meters. It is evident that this extraordinary eye structure of the eagle is specially created for this creature.
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In
the previous sections of the book, we examined why the Theory of
Evolution, which proposes that life was not created, is a fallacy
completely contrary to scientific facts. We saw that modern science
has revealed a very explicit fact through certain branches of science
such as paleontology, biochemistry, and anatomy. This fact is that
all living beings are created by Allah. 
A
hexagonal cell requires the minimum amount of wax for construction
while it stores the maximum amount of honey. So the bee uses the
most appropriate form possible. 
In
the face of this extraordinary performance, we, for sure, have to
admit the existence of a superior will that ordains these creatures.
Evolutionists want to explain away this achievement with the concept
of "instinct" and try to present it as a simple attribute of the
bee. However, if there is an instinct at work, if this rules over
all bees and provides that all bees work in harmony though uninformed
of one another, then it means that there is an exalted Wisdom that
rules over all these tiny creatures. 
Everyone
knows that woodpeckers build their nests by pecking tree trunks.
The point many people do not consider is how woodpeckers undergo
no brain haemorrhage when they so strongly tattoo with their head.
What the woodpecker does is in a way similar to a human driving
a nail in the wall with his head. If a human ventured to do something
like that, he would probably undergo a brain shock followed by a
brain haemorrhage. A woodpecker, however, can peck a hard tree trunk
38-43 times between 2.10 and 2.69 seconds and nothing happens to
it.
Bats
fly in pitch dark without trouble and they have a very interesting
navigation system to do this. It is what we call "sonar" system,
a system whereby the shapes of the surrounding objects are determined
according to the echo of the sound waves. 
We
always think of the gnat as a flying animal. In fact, the gnat spends
its developmental stages under water and gets out from under water
through an exceptional "design" being provided with all the organs
it needs. 
Hunting
birds have keen eyes that enable them to make perfect distance adjustments
while they attack their prey. In addition their large eyes contain
more vision cells, which means better sight. There are more than
one million vision cells in the eye of a hunting bird.
