Page 67 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

Harun Yahya

evolved through specific stages before becoming an efficient insect-trap-
per. It would first have to identify the insects and flies hovering around it
and then determine which scents and smells attracted them, their anatom-
ical structures and how they might be digested. Later still, it would need
to explore a means to trap these fast-moving creatures where they settle.
But then it would encounter an even greater difficulty: The plant

would need to radically alter its own chemical and anatomical structure
in line with the data it obtained. In other words, the plant would need pig-
ments to change its color and new secretions to alter its scent. In addition,
it would also have to design a trap from which the fly could not escape
after landing on it. After carrying out the requisite advance planning
studies it would then have to design, one by one, sticky hairs, a bowl with
a slippery surface and a bottom filled with water, a cover to complete the
trap and the triggers to set it in motion. It would also have to consider
how it could digest the insects’ corpses and determine the necessary en-

zymes for doing so quickly.
Any rational person can see how irrational the above scenario is.
Like all other plants, carnivorous species possess no brain nor eyes, mind
nor consciousness. Such a complex design cannot be created even by sci-
entific experts working together on the subject, let alone by a mere plant.
As is plain to see, this superior design was brought into being by Allah,
the Creator Who creates from nothing, with His infinite knowledge and

might.
Not even the most intelligent beings on Earth can create anything
without a previous model. Artists paint and scientists draw on what al-
ready exists. Yet our Almighty Lord creates with no previous model be-
fore Him. This is set out in a verse from the Qur’an:
The Originator of the heavens and earth. When He decides on
something, He just says to it, “Be!” and it is. (Surat al-Baqara: 117)

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