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taught them to do this? How did the bees discover this substance
in the first place? How did they come by the formula and learn to
produce it? How did they transmit the knowledge of its formula
to other bees and hand it down to subsequent generations of
their own?
Clearly, bees can have no "advance knowledge" of such sub-
jects as the knack of mummification, the ingredients and produc-
tion of the antiseptic substance or how it can be used-much less
that their own bodies have developed a system to manufacture
this. Bees cannot think out all these details for themselves.
Neither can they have possibly learned these processes, which
require intelligence and knowledge at every stage, by chance,
since chance cannot lead to conscious, rational behavior.
All this shows that bees must have been taught to carry out
all these processes by another Intelligence. All of this has been in-
spired in bees by God, the Creator of all beings. Like everything
else on earth, bees submit to God, the Almighty Lord and
Absolute Ruler of the universe:
"Exalted be Allah, the King, the Real. There is no god but
Him, Lord of the Noble Throne." (Surat Al-Muminun:
116)

Maximum Storage with Minimum Materials

Honeybees shape small beeswax cells and construct a hive
in which 30.000 bees live and work together.
The hive is made up of beeswax-walled honeycombs with
many tiny cells on their surfaces. All the cells forming the honey-
comb have exactly the same dimensions. This engineering mira-

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