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Awareness in Animals

gent person, on seeing a painting, would say, "What a nice picture
these pigments have developed"? This is an obviously irrational
question. To the same degree, it would be irrational to claim that
creatures without intellect can program their own offspring to act ra-
tionally and intelligently.
Here, we're confronted with a very clear fact: Since these crea-

tures haven't acquired these superior features with their own intel-
lects but were born with these faculties, some superior Being of in-
tellect and knowledge must have given them these abilities and cre-
ated them in a way as to display their behaviors. No doubt the owner
of the intellect and knowledge we see everywhere in nature is God.
In the Qur'an, God uses bees as an example, saying that it is He
Who inspires in them their seemingly intelligent behavior. In other
words, God's inspiration is really what evolutionists attempt to ex-
plain as instincts, or that animals are "programmed" to do certain
things. This reality is revealed in the Qur'an:

Your Lord revealed to the bees: "Build dwellings in the
mountains and the trees, and also in the structures which
men erect. Then eat from every kind of fruit and travel the
paths of your Lord, which have been made easy for you to
follow." From inside them comes a drink of varying colors,

"Mother Nature," who evolutionists credit with the divine powers of creation,
consists of lakes, mountains, and trees. Which part of it can give the beaver the
instinct to build its dam or provide any creature with its extraordinary abilities?

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