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ture as a power that is conscious, able to distinguish advan-
tageous and disadvantageous behaviors, and make deci-
sions.
However, neither nature nor any being in nature have
the power to make such a decision, for such a selection can
be made only by the intelligence who designed all of those
beings and, as we have shown earlier, all beings are under
Allah’s control.
According to the natural selection mechanism, the ac-
quired traits need to be inherited by subsequent genera-
tions. There is one point, however, that should not be
overlooked: Even if living beings learn something by experi-
ence, they cannot pass it on to subsequent generations. For
example, consider the case of worker ants, who are responsi-
ble for carrying out all tasks in the colony. One of their char-
acteristics is that they are sterile. In other words, they cannot
possibly pass their qualities on to subsequent generations.
Briefly, it is simply impossible for organisms to acquire in-
creasingly advanced traits and to pass them on to subse-
quent generations.

83. Every living thing innately exhibits
species-specific behaviors. Can these be

explained by chance?
No, and just one example is enough to disprove this as-
sertion. Consider a newborn silkworm, a member of the
species that can lay the most eggs at one time. Silkworms,
which can lay about 450-500 eggs at one time, bind their
eggs together with a special thread, which they secrete, in
order to protect their eggs and to prevent them from scatter-
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