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Sumac Leaf
Period: Eocene
Age: 45 million years
Region: Green River Formation, USA
Plants have been making photosynthesis in the same way they do today for millions of
years. They possessed hydraulic systems powerful enough to crack concrete, pumps that
can raise water absorbed from the soil many meters in height and chemical factories that
manufacture food for living things. Plants were created hundreds of millions of years ago.
Their Creator, Allah, Lord of the Worlds, continues to create them today. Mankind has
tried to understand these miracles of creation in plants using the most advanced means
made available by modern technology, but it is still impossible to produce even a single
species of plant from nothing. Allah reveals this truth in Surat an-Naml:
He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends down water for you from the sky by which
We make luxuriant gardens grow – you could never make their trees grow. Is there another god
besides Allah? No indeed, but they are people who equate others with Him! (Qur’an, 16:60)
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