Page 17 - Biomimetics: Technology Imitates Nature

Harun Yahya

• How the DNA helix stores information in all living things,
• How, through photosynthesis, leaves perform an astounding chem-
ical reaction to create 300 billion tons of sugar every year.
These are just a few examples of the natural mechanisms and designs
that create great excitement, and have the potential to enrich a great many
areas of technology. As our information accumulates and technological
possibilities increase, their potential becomes ever clearer.
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In the 19 century, for example, nature was imitated only for its aes-
thetic values. Painters and architects of the time, influenced by the beau-
ties of the natural world, duplicated these structures’ external appearance
in their own creations. But the deeper one looks into the fine detail, the

more astonishing nature’s immaculate order becomes. Gradually, as the
extraordinary nature of natural designs and the benefits that their imita-
tion would bring to mankind, natural mechanisms began to be studied
more closely—and finally, at the molecular level.
The emerging materials, structures and machines being developed
through biomimetics can be used in new solar cells, advanced robots and
future spacecraft. From that perspective, nature’s designs are opening in-
credibly broad horizons.

How Will Biomimetics Change Our Lives?

Our Lord has given us the designs in nature as great blessings.
Imitating them, taking them as models will direct mankind toward what
is right and true. For some reason, only recently has the scientific com-
munity understood that nature’s designs are an enormous resource and
that these need to be made use of in daily life.
A great many authoritative scientific publications accept that natur-
al structures represent a huge resource for showing mankind the way to-
ward superior designs. Nature magazine expresses it in these terms:

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