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their huge leaves upward to prevent them from sinking.
They can continue their lives with all these precautions, yet they also
know that these are not enough for their reproduction. They need a living
being that will carry their pollen to another water lily, and this living being
is a beetle (coleopterans) which has been created with a special weakness
for white colour. They prefer these white water lilies out of all the attrac-
tive flowers of the Amazon River. When Amazon water lilies are visited by
creatures which will continue their species, they close all their leaves,
imprison them, and offer them ample pollen. They let them free after keep-
ing them for one night, and then change their colour so that they do not
bring the same pollen back to them. The once pure white, glorious water
lilies will now go on adorning the Amazon river in pink.
Could such flawless and finely calculated plans be the work of a bud
unaware of everything? Of course not. They are the work of the wisdom
of Allah, Who created all things. All the details summarised here show that
plants, like all other living beings in the universe, came into existence
already furnished with the most convenient systems, and this was thanks
to their Creator.

CONCLUSION
Can the wind form an airplane by coincidence?
The famous physicist Sir Fred Hoyle makes a very striking observa-
tion about the origin of life. In his book The Intelligent Universe he writes:

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way (by
coincidence) is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping
through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials
therein. 22

This comparison of Hoyle's is quite inspiring. The examples that we
have discussed above also reveal that both the existence of life and the
perfection of its present systems force us to look for the great power mak-
ing these come into being. Just as a hurricane cannot produce an airplane
as a result of coincidences, neither is it possible for the universe to have
come into being as a result of unanticipated happenings and moreover to

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