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Harun Yahya

continue, they need some insects to carry their pollen to other lilies. In the
Amazon, beetles have a special attraction to the color white and therefore,
select this lily’s flowers to land on. With the arrival of this six-legged
guests, who will allow the Amazon lilies to survive down the generations,
the petals close up, preventing the insects from escaping, while offering
them large quantities of pollen. After holding them imprisoned for the
whole night and throughout the next day, the flower then releases them,
also changing color so that the beetles do not bring its own pollen back to
it. The lily, formerly a shining white, now adorns the river in a dark pink.
No doubt that all these flawless, perfectly calculated, and consecu-
tive steps are not the work of the lily itself, which has no foreknowledge
or planning abilities, but flow from the infinite wisdom of God, its
Creator. All the details summarized briefly here demonstrate that, like all
things in the universe, God created them with all the necessary systems to
ensure their survival.

Left: Cross section of the water lily.
Below: The water lily's leaf and flower on the wa-
ter’s surface.

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