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the receptors that regulate the wings’ timing—further
demonstrate the perfection in their creation. All of these
must exist and operate at the same time. If the thorax
muscles lack sufficient energy, or if the insect’s me-
tabolism can’t provide the wingbeats frequent
enough, these shortcomings by themselves will be
sufficient to prevent flight taking place. The fact that
all these systems in the fly’s body work together in
perfect harmony is one of the proofs of Almighty
Allah’s sublime creation.
The theory of evolution tries to account for insect
flight by claiming that flight evolved independently in each different
group of flying insects. Wings—which could not have developed even
once through random mutations—are depicted as having evolved sepa-
rately four times in some species.
Indeed, the evolutionist scenario claims that wings evolved once,
subsequently disappeared, evolved again, and disappeared yet again.
For example, one article in Nature magazine suggested that after losing
its wings, the stick-insect (Phasmatodea) preserved the muscular and ner-
vous systems for flight, and that its wings re-appeared at a later date.
This claim isn’t accepted even among evolutionists. Although Nature
used this account as its cover story, it also states that this claim flies in
the face of the theory’s structure agreed upon by evolutionists. 236
New Scientist states that such claims attracted a strong reaction from
entomologists, along the lines of “Impossible, impossible, impossi-
ble.” 237 In a report in Science News, Michael F. Whiting comments, “It’s as
if a mammalogist found a whale walking around on legs.” 238
Evolutionists see there is no basis to their claims, yet they still insist
on ignoring the fact and using hollow words in forced evolutionary ac-
counts. However, the evidence that living things were created from
nothing is too strong. Even if evolutionists are reluctant to accept the
fact, Allah’s magnificent artistry and infinite knowledge manifest them-
selves throughout the universe.