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Harun Yahya

the snake has a poison system in its jaw that's most complex and spe-
cially planned. For the system to function at all, the fangs first need to
be hollow, then the venom glands connected to them, and the venom
itself must be powerful enough to quickly paralyze its prey.

Furthermore, the system must operate by reflex the moment the
snake bites its prey. The absence of just one of these many compo-
nents will mean that the whole system cannot function. This could re-
sult in the snake falling prey to the very animal it had selected as prey.
Another detail needing additional consideration is the way the
venom the snake's body contains doesn't harm the snake itself. The
glands that store the venom need to have a protective feature to keep
it from spreading through the body, killing the snake. The venom sys-
tem, which exists as a composite whole, clearly cannot have arisen in
stages via an imaginary process of "evolution."
Just thinking about the venom system is suffcient to reveal the
laughable nature of evolutionists’ claims of "chance emergence," be-
cause as you can see from the examples just cited, everything in the
snake's bodily systems is exceedingly complex and inter-related.
Heat sensors or poison fangs evidently cannot appear one day by
some mutation. In a crude description of the stages that would have
to take place, the fangs would need to appear first, before the hollow
passages inside them. Then the snake's body would have to "learn"

what formula of venom affects warm-blooded animals; and then the
snake would have to produce venom inside its own body.
Everything, right down to the smallest details, is flawlessly arranged.
God, the Omnipotent, created rattlers with their perfect scent detec-
tion abilities, poison systems and all their other attributes. In the
Qur'an, those who refuse to have faith are described by God as cruel

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