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were a different temperature could not some other molecule, tuned to
absorb light of a different colour, take the place of chlorophyll?
Remarkably enough the answer is no, for within broad limits all mole-
cules absorb light of similar colours. The absorption of light is accom-
plished by the excitation of electrons in molecules to higher energy
states, and the same no matter what molecule you are discussing.
Furthermore, light is composed of photons, packets of energy and pho-
tons of the wrong energy simply can not be absorbed… As things stand
in reality, there is a good fit between the physics of stars and
that of molecules. Failing this fit, however, life would have been im-
possible. 71
What Greenstein is saying briefly is this: No plant can only perform pho-
tosynthesis except within a very narrow range of light wavelengths. And
that range corresponds exactly to the light given out by the Sun.
The harmony between stellar and molecular physics that Greenstein
refers to is a harmony too extraordinary ever to be explained by chance.
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There was only one chance in 10 of the Sun's providing just the right kind
of light necessary for us and that there should be molecules in our world
that are capable of using that light. This perfect harmony is unquestionably
proof of Creation.
In other words, there is a single Creator, the Ruler of starlight and of the
molecules of plants Who has created all these things in harmony with one
other, exactly as is revealed in the Qur'an:
He is Allah–the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form. To Him
belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and
earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All Wise. (Surat al-
Hashr: 24)

The Light of Your Eyes

We have seen how the light coming to us from the Sun consists of just
three narrow bands of the electromagnetic spectrum:
1) Infrared light, whose wavelengths are longer than visible light and