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Harun Yahya

ordination in its four feet to move over surfaces, climb walls with
ease, and walk on the ceiling without falling off.
As it walks swiftly across the ceiling, the animal makes completely
different movements with all its feet, simultaneously and without
error, without its feet becoming tangled up.
Bear in mind how difficult it is to make opposite movements with
your opposite hand and foot at the same time, you can better under-
stand the difficulty of the gecko's moving all four feet.
Research reveals facts that are quite astonishing in all regards. First
of all, the gecko needs to be aware of the function the Van der Waals
force serves. Yet how did it come by this information, which even a
great many university undergraduates have never heard of?
Is it possible for a lizard to "evolve" these tiny hairs, and to calcu-
late their numbers and angles in such a way as to enable their weight-
bearing capacities? No doubt, the location of the hairs on the sole of
the gecko's foot—in the ideal numbers, at
the ideal angle and order—could not have
come about as a result of the gecko's own
reasoning abilities.
In addition, the gecko also needs a skel-
eton, and nervous and muscular systems
capable of coordinating its four feet so
perfectly. It is of course out of the question
for a lizard to design all of these itself and
to create them within its own body.
Only in the last century have human
beings discovered the structure and na-
ture of the atom. The gecko, on the other

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