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THE QUR'AN LEADS THE W A Y TO SCIENCE

However, materialist scientists, denying
God's creative power, claim that all the life-
forms in nature came about as a result of
haphazard events. In their view, the existence
of "aberrant designs" or "unnecessary
products" is quite natural in a universe which
is the work of coincidence. Through the years,
this flawed point of view has caused an
improper interpretation of much scientific
data, and prevented the discovery of numerous
facts. For instance, a materialist scientist
examining a bird feather he discovered in
nature decides, looking at the asymmetric
structure of the feather, that it has a distorted
form because it came about by chance.
Therefore, he does not feel the need to study
the asymmetric structure of the feather. For a
scientist who believes that God created every
life-form for a specific purpose, and with a
perfect design, however, the asymmetric
pattern of a bird's feather is an important trait
worthy of examination. A scientist who begins
with such a premise will soon see that the
asymmetric form of bird feathers is necessary
for flight, and that birds with symmetric
feather forms are unable to fly.
Such examples are common in the world of
science. Scientists who studied honeybees had
a similar experience. Certain scientists, after
calculating the angles formed by the The complex
make-up of DNA,
honeybees to join the honeybee cells,
with each of its
determined that two angles formed by properties having
honeybees differed from the optimum angle a specific purpose,
demonstrates that
by 0,020. (Measurements showed that angles DNA was created.
formed by bees are 109.28 and 70.32 degrees.

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