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powers prevalent on earth united to establish a system
for themselves and simply added a tail to the caterpil-
lar within this system!
Scenario 3: The great power called ‘coincidence’
(!) has added a snake-like tail to the caterpillar just as
it gave various things to all living beings.
One does not have to be very intelligent to see the
inconsistency in these scenarios, all based on the
Theory of Evolution. Neither is the caterpillar an atten-
tive and observant designer, nor has the earth itself a
system that has the ability to design and create. In
other words, neither can a living thing interfere in its
own body to acquire advanced features or change
itself into another species, nor is there a mechanism
outside of it to do this. (This subject is described in
detail in the chapter on the Theory of Evolution.)
Those who regard nature as a highly skilled
machine and believe such things as "nature discov-
ered", "wonder of nature", "mother nature", etc., know
very well that what they mean by "nature" is the air,
water, earth, trees, flowers and insects. In short, they
mean the whole world and the solar system in which
our world is located. If people were told that all living
things were "made by the world" or "produced by the
earth", they would most probably laugh. However,
propaganda using the words "nature-cosmos" makes
people regard nature almost like a conscious being.
One must not forget that nature is the name of the
extraordinarily orderly and perfect system we view,
not the name of its establisher and eternal life-bestow-
er. Allah created all living beings on earth and they
continue to live, along with whatever features Allah
has endowed them.
In this chapter of the book, we are going to review
the defence systems of some animals in nature. While

doing this, we have to keep in mind a very important
point: much of nature is based on a continuous rela-
tionship between living things that hunt and that are
hunted. This relationship rests on such a delicate bal-

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