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not exist in nature. This being the case, it decides to produce the thread to
make its web. But once again it faces a huge problem; how is it to produce
this thread?
Having said which, that force known as coincidence again enters the
equation, a number of changes take place inside the insect's body, and
suddenly six different glands emerge perfectly formed in its lower body
ready to give off the chemical liquids. Then these glands begin to
function under equal pressure and time systems. Again by coincidence,
the chemical liquids produced by these glands mix with each other in
particular proportions and the raw material of spider thread emerges. By
another coincidence, and at the same time, the spinnerets on its back legs
spin the fibres and a perfect thread for the insect is produced. So helpful
is coincidence that the emerging thread is five times stronger than steel
and thirty percent more elastic than rubber. This thread, with its various
molecular characteristics, which cannot be completely imitated by man,
has been planned by a tiny little insect.
Next, the insect weaves a web, sometimes using sticky and elastic
threads, at other times rigid and strong ones. What a lucky coincidence
that the insect's legs are seven-jointed to enable it to walk on the web! And
another product of so-called coincidence was already on its feet, the
special coating to stop it sticking to its own web. And the coincidences do
not end here. The body of this deaf and almost blind insect was already
covered in special hairs capable of sensing the slightest vibration on the
web, from the very first day it wove the web. And so today's spider
emerges as a result of coincidentally acquired capabilities which we have
been unable to detail here.
It is quite evident from an examination of this scenario what an
unintelligent hypothesis the theory of evolution is. One important point
must be made here. Firstly, the features the spider possesses can in no way
have come about over time. The abilities under discussion must all have
been in place in the spider at the same time. There can be no such thing as
a spider which knows how to make a web but cannot produce silk, or
which can produce silk but does not know how to build a web. As for
spiders which do not build webs, such as the jumping spider, these were