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seen in artificial, human designs such as automobiles and jet planes:
many experimental designs over tens of years have reached an optimum
design by being passed through the filter of experience . . . the flight of
the eagle and the fast running of the cheetah … these animals have not
reached a random point in the genetic sphere; they enjoy an unrivalled
position enabling them to make the best use of their surroundings. 92
For years, birds’ matchless modes of flight and wing structure have
been a source of inspiration for aeronautical engineers. Yet obviously
birds could not produce all these components on their own. It’s equally
irrational to imagine that a so-called evolutionary process, working at
random, could have produced all these perfections. Their structures
were evidently created so that birds could fly. This creation is that of our
Almighty Lord, and “There is no creature He does not hold by the fore-
lock” (Surah Hud, 56).
In another verse of the Qur’an, our Lord Allah reveals:
Have they not looked at the birds above them, with wings outspread
and folded back? Nothing holds them up but the All-Merciful. He
sees all things. (Surat al-Mulk, 19)

Birds Carry out Their Aerodynamic Flight through
the Inspiration of Allah
The science of aerodynamics studies the movement of solid bodies
through fluid ones such as air. For example, when a plane moves
through the atmosphere, it produces various forces that affect its move-
ment. In the face of these aerodynamic forces, engineers produce designs
that will enable planes to move through the air more easily.
In order for any object, planes included, to move through the air
without encountering any unexpected force or resistance, it is first test-
ed against air resistance in a so-called wind tunnel. This is done either by
passing a current of air over a fixed, stationary model of the plane in a
laboratory environment. The movement of the body and the surround-
ing air is then adjusted according to resulting calculations, measure-
ments and further experiments.