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The ants also have a discipline very similar to that of the military. Yet
the critical aspect is that there is no "officer", that is any organizing ad-
ministrator, in sight. The various caste systems within the ant colony car-
ry out their duties in a faultless manner; although, yet there is no obvi-
ous "central power" which supervises them.
Then the only explanation is that the central will in question is an
"invisible" one. The inspiration which is mentioned in the Qur’an with
the statement "And your Lord revealed to the bee" (Surat Nahl: 68), is
this invisible power.
This will has achieved such tremendous planning that people are in
awe of it when they try to analyze it. Such awe and wonderment have
been expressed from time to time in various forms by the researchers as
well. Evolutionists, who claim that such a perfect system has developed
as a result of coincidences, are not able to explain this sacrificial behav-
iour which is at the core of this system. An article written on this sub-
ject in the Journal of Bilim ve Teknik indicates this incapability once
more:
The problem is why living beings help each other. According to Darwin’s
Theory, each living creature fights for his own survival and reproduces.
Since helping others would relatively decrease the probability of survival
of that living being, this behaviour had to be eliminated by evolution in
the long run. Yet it has been observed that living beings may be ready to
sacrifice.

A classical form of explaining the fact of sacrifice is that the colonies
which are made up of individuals who are ready to sacrifice for the ben-
efit of the group or the genus shall be more successful during evolution
than those which are made up of egotistical individuals. However, the
point, which is not explained in this theory, is how the societies which
can sacrifice may maintain this characteristic. A single egotistical individ-
ual who may come up in such a society should be able to transfer its self-
ish characteristics to the later generations, since he is not going to sacri-
fice himself. Another vague point is that if evolution happens at the lev-
el of societies, what should the dimension of this society be? Should it be
the family, herd, genus or class? Even if there is an evolution simultane-
ously at more than one level, what will be the result when interests are
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in conflict ?

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