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a bee how to build a honeycomb, what angle to make the
hive’s hexagons, or teach a bird to build a nest? Nothing in
nature can make another living thing perform any act that
requires intelligence and consciousness. Such a claim is en-
tirely irrational and nonscientific. The existence of a
Possessor of Intelligence, One Who makes all beings per-
form their acts and gives them their features, is a crystal-
clear fact. The possessor of this infinite intelligence is Allah,
the Lord of all the worlds. All behaviors that the evolution-
ists define as "instinct" or characterize as "encoding" occur
only by Allah’s inspiration.

80. How do the evolutionists explain

altruism, cooperation, and affection between
living things, for we see many examples

of such behavior in nature?
They do not provide any consistent explanations to such
questions. Let’s go into more detail with some examples: A
male horned screamer builds an incredibly well-sheltered
nest and then places the female in it, carries food to her, and
looks after both the female and the eggs until the young
hatch and mature. He never neglects to take care of them. A
penguin does not leave her egg during the freezing polar
winter; rather, she incubates it during all this time without
eating anything. Many fish species painstakingly build nests
for eggs and larvae. For example, male sticklebacks gather
bits of vegetation, spout a sticky liquid that is secreted by
glands near their kidneys, and use it to glue these plant
pieces together to build a nest. Then swimming around it,

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