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Harun Yahya

the prey at the nearest scorpion's foot and its arrival at the foot fur-
thest away. When the sensors' nerve cells detects a Rayleigh wave,
one of the cells transmits a signal to the central nervous system, as
well as to the nerve that perceives the waves from the three opposite

legs with a slight delay. However, the signal from those three legs is
suppressed, and does not immediately reach the nervous system cen-
ter.
In this way, the creature can analyze the position of the foot that
constitutes the source of the earliest signal and those of the other three
feet. By this positional analysis, it establishes the direction of the
source of the wave.
Should the difference between the warning signal and the sup-
pressed signals reaching the sensors in the feet be less than 1/500th of
a second, then the nervous system perceives both signals at the same
time, with no delay. For the scorpion this means going into action and
using all its perfectly designed weapons for the attack.
The eight nerve cells that process the signals from the feet make a
joint decision, just like a committee, on the direction of the prey. 31
How does this happen? Do the nerve cells hold a meeting every
single time, set out the data and arrive at a conclusion?
Obviously, there is no such meeting. Nerve cells consist of nothing
but protein, fat and water, with no reason or consciousness.

This mechanism has operated exactly the same in all the scorpions
that have lived over millions of years. It did not develop by chance
over time, as evolutionists would have us believe, nor was it added
on afterwards. Almighty God created the scorpion with its perfect de-
sign.

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