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fact that there is always an antiseptic hormone in the body of the ant in
an amount of 1.4 micrograms is a detail which has been worked out with
great precision. Because He Who created the ant is the One Who caters
for all the needs of all the living beings He created in the greatest detail,
and who is indeed "Gracious".
As demonstrated, all endocrine glands mentioned in this chapter are
units that have vital functions for the ants. A lack of or the insufficient
functioning of any of these has adverse influences on all of the social
and physical life of the ant. In fact, it makes it impossible
Gracious is Allah to for it to stay alive.
His servants: He This demolishes absolutely the claims of the theory of
gives sustenance to evolution, because evolution claims that living beings have
whom He pleases: developed in stages and that starting from a primitive
and He is the Most form, they have become more advanced gradually as a re-
Strong, the sult of a series of beneficial coincidences. This would
Almighty. mean that the ants during the previous stages did not have
(Surat ash-Shura: 19) part of the physiological characteristics they have today
and that they acquired these later on. However, all the se-
cretions of the ants we discussed above are vital and with-
out them it is impossible for an ant species to survive.
The conclusion from all this is that the ants were created at the out-
set with these endocrine glands and vital functions. That is, they did not
wait for the development of the necessary endocrine glands for hun-
dreds of thousands of years in order to have a defence and communi-
cations system. Had that been so, it would have been impossible for the
ant genus to have survived. The only explanation is that the first ant
species which existed on earth did so in the same complete and perfect
form as it is in today. A perfect system cannot be other than the artwork
of an intelligent designer. If we are able today to talk about an ant so-
ciety with a population of billions, then we must admit that a single
Creator has created these all at once.

The Identity Card of Ants: Colony Scent
We had mentioned previously that the ants can recognize each oth-
er and distinguish their relatives and friends from the same colony.
Zoologists are still investigating how the ants can recognize their rela-
tives. While man cannot distinguish between the few ants he may come

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