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Harun Yahya
The male Polyphemus moth has wide, hairy antennae so sensitive that it can detect
the scent of a female moth from several kilometers away. Indeed, even if the female
only emits 1 millionth of a gram an hour, males still have no difficulty in detecting it.
The moth's scent detection sense is so effective thanks to the presence of some
17,000 tiny hairs on each antenna. Each tiny hair, in turn, has thousands of scent-de-
tecting pores, raising the moths' sensitivity to exceedingly high levels.
How did the moths come by this flawless scent-detecting ability?
How did this structure in the tiny moth's body, with its 17,000 hairs and the thousands
of pores on each hair, come into being?
It is impossible for an insect to have produced such a highly developed system by
chance. Anyone will immediately see the illogical nature of such a claim. God created
the moths together with their matchless characteristics.
Adnan Oktar
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