Page 109 - A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propagand‪a

HARUN YAHYA

world has known for some 20 years that there is no difference be-
tween 380-million-year-old spiders and present-day ones. At its an-
nual conference in 1983, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science put forward important fossil discoveries
regarding these creatures. The interesting thing about these 380-mil-
lion-year-old fossils of spiders, ticks, and centipedes is that they are
no different from their modern counterparts. One of the scientists
who examined the fossils remarked that "they looked like they
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might have died yesterday." It is stated on the Australian Museum
website that 380-million-year-old examples of the spider Attercopus
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fimbriungus possessed silk-producing organs even then. These fos-
sils reflect the origin of spiders in the most realistic manner and in-
validate The Discovery Channel's claims: Spiders emerged not by
evolution, but suddenly and perfectly formed, and have undergone
no change in the millions of years that have followed.
On the other hand, it also shows that the evolutionist interpre-
tations of spider silk and the complex features of their webs are ut-
terly forced. For instance, spider thread is so light that one kilogram
of it could stretch around the earth three times. Despite being so
light, spider thread is five times stronger than steel of the same
weight. Thanks to its elasticity, it can stretch up to four times its own
length. All of this is made possible by the special structure and
arrangement of the atoms which make up spider thread. Moreover,
although spider silk is solid in web form, it is a liquid in the spider's
body. As soon it makes contact with the air, it solidifies as the result
of a rapid reaction. Yet, spider thread, which is "the envy of chemists
and materials scientists everywhere," as one American newspaper
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put it, can also revert to its original form. By eating its own web, the
spider can turn it back into liquid form for re-use later.
Alongside this web-production, web-weaving is also a complex
behavior. Although the spider's brain is no larger than a grain of
salt, an architectural plan can be seen in the web it spins. The spider
drops its thread down from where it sits and waits for the wind to
carry it somewhere it can stick to. It then sticks the other end of the

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