Page 77 - The Miracle of Termites

Adnan Oktar

To complete this comparison, let's play with this possibility: If a
team composed of blind workers, architects and engineers has com-
pleted a construction, what possibilities come to mind? Could anyone
assert that the building came about by chance? Or would it be as-
sumed that the blind workers involved, if not experienced, had re-
ceived special training, and that someone had directed their work?

First of all, blind workers could not build such a structure; but if they
did, someone would have to have trained them, showed them how to
manage each stage of the construction and supervised their every step.
It would be illogical to think that blind persons could construct any
towering building without close supervision.
In the same way, it is unthinkable that termite nests could come
into existence by chance.

Termite Skyscrapers

Termites construct skyscrapers up to 7 meters (22 feet) high.
Comparing the size of a termite with the height of its nest, it's no ex-
aggeration to call it a skyscraper.
Comparing human buildings with termite constructions, we
come up with some incredible figures. In order to get an idea of the
proportions of the nests that termites make, we can compare them to

the Empire State building in New York City.
The construction of that building started in 1930 and took 14
months to complete; it was the tallest building in the world until the
World Trade Center was built in 1972. It was built by four expert con-
struction companies and rose to a height of 443 meters (1,453 feet).
It occupies an area of 8,000 square meters (9,567 square yards, or
86,111 square feet) and 16 different plans were drawn up before con-
struction started. The foundations were dug to a depth of 10.5 meters
(34.4 feet), from which 28,500 truckloads of earth were removed. After

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