Page 118 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

Adnan Oktar

This stage prompts a number of
questions we need to ask our-
selves. How can a plant realize
that its leaves are being eaten by The shedding Production of toxic mole-
of leaves with
insects? How can it distin- parasites cules against caterpillars
guish these in-

sects’—or other
plants’—secre-
tions from among Formation of
hairs that keep
thousands of chemical away insects
compounds?
How does it
know of the
other insects
The way that a plant realizes that a
that will prey
harmful insect has approached—
on these, and and knows the chemical formula
that will neutralize the insect—
which specific scents
are miracles of creation.
will attract them—or that
these scents will reach those insects by
being carried by the wind? Moreover, how can the plant be sure that the
insects it calls on will help, and not harm it? These plants have been flaw-
lessly implementing the same defense system for millions of years, since

the moment they were first created. Of course, plants themselves have no
consciousness or intelligence with which to organize any such complex
process in such an ordered, immaculate way, to calculate and plan or to
manufacture the necessary chemicals. A plant cannot recognize the cater-
pillars or insects that eat it. It does not even have the intelligence to know
what a scent it. It is clear that the plant has no consciousness-related prop-
erties such as understanding or recognizing anything. Certainly, all these
attributes have been created and bestowed on the plants by Almighty
Allah.

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