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Harun Yahya

ities left empty for it. Since the leaf is covered in a waxy substance and its
pores open only when pressure is at a particular level, the leaf’s cells swell
like balloons. This dynamic system, which in the human body must use
dozens of tissues, nerves and fibers, has been designed in the plant using
organs planned in line with hydraulic pressure. Fibers that absorb water
from the roots—in a manner that has still not been fully unraveled but in

a way similar to an air- pressure tank—xylem and phloem that carry liq-
uids to all parts of the plant, organs adapted to the moisture in the air and
soil, cells that store the water in the leaves or use it for photosynthesis—
all give rise to the portions of a stupendous design.
This system has been working in the same way since the first plant
was created. A plant cannot survive in the absence of a single feature be-
longing to this system. Therefore, no plant can have evolved in stages, as
evolutionists claim. All this shows that each plant was designed and cre-
ated as a whole, together with all its parts, structures and cells.

Communication in Plants
A relationship in the different branches of the same tree—one that
had not previously been recognized—recently attracted botanists’ atten-
tion. When the top part of a pine tree is cut off, for example, it was ob-

served that the side branches immediately underneath the cut bend up-
wards as if to compensate for the missing branches and begin to grow
straight up within a few growth seasons. These limbs, which had previ-
ously been lateral branches, allow one or more of the branches to grow to
replace the upright trunk of the pine tree. As if they knew that they had
been chosen for the purpose, the branches thus selected grow toward a
position in the middle of the others, where they can dominate and assume
a central position. But how do the other branches know that these one or
two branches have been selected to replace the top of the pine tree?

The questions of how the “main” branch is selected, and why and

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