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Engineering in Nature

ponents within the cell, using the micro-tubules like highways to go
from one point to another.
Every detail of the special structure in the tiny hairs is the product
of separate engineering and reveal the knowledge of their designer.
The intelligence manifested in the micro-hairs belongs to God. God
has created all entities with a perfect and incomparable design.
Contemplating them will be an important help to comprehending the
greatness of God. In one verse it is revealed:

Say: "Am I to desire other than God as Lord when He is the Lord
of all things?" What each self earns is for itself alone. No bur-
den-bearer can bear another's burden. Then you will return to
your Lord, and He will inform you regarding the things about
which you differed. (Surat al-An'am : 164)

CAN A WINCH CAPABLE OF LIFTING A TREE PICK PEAS
OFF THE GROUND?

With its trunk, the elephant can pick up and carry a tree trunk, as
well as pick a pea off the ground and lift it to its mouth. In its trunk, it
can carry up to four liters of water for drinking or washing, and spurt
that water out like a hose. It can also use its trunk as a means of com-
munication to gather the herd together or warn them to flee. Thanks
to this organ's perfect design with its 50,000 muscles, it can perform
actions requiring the greatest strength and sensitivity.
Computer and electronic technology have seen enormous advan-
ces in recent years. Yet we have not yet managed to produce machines
strong as a winch, yet capable of such sensitive actions as picking up
a pea.
The elephant's trunk is an organ with a special design, each of its
features showing the flawless and incomparable nature of God's crea-
tion.
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