Page 111 - Biomimetics: Technology Imitates Nature

Harun Yahya

changing man’s jacket is around $10,000.
What would you think if someone showed you a jacket and claimed,
“This can change color. Yet nobody prepared the jacket, nor its ability to
change color. It all just happened by itself.” Probably you’d imagine that
person to be mad or else very ignorant. Quite clearly, there must have
been a tailor to put it together, and even before that, engineers to create its
ability to change color.
So, how can the chameleon carry out these impeccable changes? Did
it design the systems that permit the change, install them inside its own
body, and carry out the processes all by itself? Of course it would be most
irrational to claim that the chameleon did this all of its own free will. Since
even human beings find it definitely impossible to bring about such a
change, how can a reptile install a system capable of changing its own
body’s appearance? To claim that such a superior ability came about by
chance is nonsensical and invalid.
No natural mechanism has the power to form such impeccable abil-
ities and bestow them on the living things that need it. A superior power
rules the atoms, molecules, and cells in the creature’s body and arranges
them as it wishes. God, Who created the chameleons, reveals to us the in-
comparable nature of His creation in such examples. As is revealed in the
Qur’an, God is All-Powerful:
Everything in the heavens and the earth glorifies God. He is the
Almighty, the All-Wise. The kingdom of the heavens and the Earth

belongs to Him. He gives life and causes to die. He has power over
all things. (Qur’an, 57: 1-2)

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