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THE QUR'AN LEADS THE W A Y TO SCIENCE

and therefore they waste energy when they beat frequently. According to
the writer, this was a failure in design.

A team led by Jon Harrison, of Arizona State University, has published
research findings in Science (1996, vol. 274, p. 88) which suggest that there
are good reasons for the differences in the wing-beat frequencies of
honeybees. As the temperature of the environment was changed, the bee's
body temperature, the rate of its wing-beats, and its metabolic rate was
measured. As the temperature rose from 20 to 40 degrees C, the wing-beat
frequency decreased. Research revealed that honeybees beat their wings
less frequently in hot weather, whereas they beat them more frequently in
cold weather. Yet, there was no change in their flight speeds. They were
keeping their body and hive warm with the energy output they generated
by beating their wings more frequently in cold weather. Ultimately, it was
revealed that wings of honeybees had a dual function: flying and
generating heat.
Another sophistry put forward by evolutionist scientists, who do not
believe that God created living things distinctly and perfectly in their
present forms, is the fallacy of "vestigial organs". Evolutionists, who argue
that all living things evolved from a predecessor by chance, believe that
there existed a number of "non-functional organs" in the human body,
inherited from progenitors which had become vestigial over time by not
being used. Scientists who do not believe in the creative attribute of God,
caused a great deal of harmful confusion in the scientific study of these

organs, which they assumed to be nonfunctional. As science progressed,
it was understood that these supposedly nonfunctional organs are
actually vital for the human body. The gradual decrease in evolutionists'
long list of vestigial organs was the best indication of how flawed was this
premise, that had impeded the progress of science. S.R. Scadding, an
evolutionist himself, concurred with this fact in his article, titled "Can
vestigial organs constitute evidence for evolution?", published in the
magazine Evolutionary Theory:
Since it is not possible to unambiguously identify useless structures,
and since the structure of the argument used is not scientifically valid,
I conclude that "vestigial organs" provide no special evidence for the
theory of evolution. 30

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