Page 84 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

Adnan Oktar

nana tree know about this ratio and act upon it? According to this calcu-
lation, when you start from one leaf and take 8 turns around it, you will
come to another leaf on the same plane. And you will encounter three
leaves on these turns. Wherever you may go, from South Africa to Latin
America, the ratio will remain the same. Just this ratio in the arrangement
of leaves is significant evidence that living things did not

come into existence by coincidence, but that they were
created in line with an exceedingly complex calcula-
tion, plan and design. It is Allah, the Lord of sublime
knowledge and wisdom, Who encodes such a ratio
in the genetic make-up of living things and cre-
ates this information and feature for them.
One of the most frequently encountered
arrangements in trees is pairs of leaves and
branches that emerge exactly opposite one

another. After the seed sprouts, it opens
up two rudimentary leaves, which
leaves are set out 180 degrees opposite
one another. The two leaves that sprout above
these first two also grow opposite one another
and at right angles to the first pair, for the great-
est possible distribution between them. In this

way, there are now four leaves spaced
every 90 degrees on the stalk. In
other words, if we look at this
branch from above, we see that the
leaves are so arranged as to constitute
a square, and that the upper leaves thus do
not shade the lower two. 28
This is a sight we are quite famil-
iar with. However, most people never

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