Page 41 - Allah's Artistry in Colour

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar 39

The light rays coming from
the sun activate the pig-
ments in the objects and
blue reflected by therefore colours form. We
pigment
may compare pigment mol-
ecules to sieves whose
selectivity depends on the
size of their pores. Just as
in a sieve, the wavelengths
which pigments select
according to their struc-
tures – that means colours
– vary.

Blood contains colourful pigments
carrying oxygen in the body. These
colours vary among living beings. For
instance, while the colour of the blood
of cuttlefish is light blue or colourless,
the blood pigments of other animals
and human beings are red. The red-
ness of the hen's crest and the red-
ness of most shrimps are caused by
blood pigments.

rays, and vision enhancement. The substance melanin, nature's solution to
the problem of hazardous light rays, absorbs higher energy light more
strongly than lower energy light. So, it absorbs ultraviolet more strongly than
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blue, and blue more strongly than green. In this way, melanin provides pro-
tection to the lens of the eye against ultraviolet. It provides near optimum
protection to the retina by filtering different colours in proportion to their
ability to damage the tissue of the retina – thereby reducing the risks of mac-
ular degeneration. People with more eye-melanin have less occurrence of
macular degeneration; people with less eye-melanin have greater occurrence
of macular degeneration. About 15% of our original supply of melanin is lost
from the eye by the age of forty and about 25% is lost by the age of fifty. The