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iber-optic technology, which has recently be-
gun to be employed, uses cables capable of
transmitting light and high-capacity informa-
tion. What if someone were to tell you that
living things have been using this technology
for millions of years? These are organisms you know very well,
but whose superior design a great many people never even con-
sider—plants.
Because so many look at their world around them in a su-
perficial way, out of familiarity, they never see the examples of
superior design in the living things
that God has created. But in fact, all
living things are full of secrets. Asking
why and how is enough
to let you raise this
curtain of familiarity.
Anyone who thinks
about these questions
will realize that
everything we see
around us is the
work of a Creator pos-
sessed of reason and
knowledge—our