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The Ant’s Glorious Nervous System

A tiny ant, which has around 500,000 nerve cells, is a

great sign leading to faith. Even in such a creature as this, which
has almost no other aim in life than to survive by gathering food,
Allah has created a perfect structure, a superior communication
system, and a miraculous neural network. Thanks to this extraor-
dinary neural network, ants use various modes of communication
to find their prey, follow each other, build their nests, and fight
their enemies. Thanks to their superior abilities, they are
able to survive in a perfect way without any need for
assistance.
Yet the ant is completely unaware of its
500,000 nerve cells. Neither scientists nor
random events can endow it with this
comprehensive equipment so that
it can continue to live. The ran-

dom mutations envisaged by
Darwin cannot produce a sin-
gle cell in this magnificent
system; chance cannot
know what a liv-