Page 18 - The Miracle in the Spider

18 THE MIRACLE IN THE SPIDER

When we ask ourselves how an instinctive pattern of behaviour arose in
the first place and became hereditarily fixed we are given no answer. 2
Other evolutionists say that all living creatures' behaviour is
founded not on instinct but on their genetic programming. But in that
case they have to explain who wrote the programme and installed it
in living creatures. But evolutionists are unable to do this. Despite
being the originator of the theory, Charles Darwin admits their
dilemma in the following words:
So wonderful an instinct as that of the hive-bee making its cells will
probably have occurred to many readers, as a difficulty sufficient to
overthrow my whole theory. 3
As the above makes quite clear, a concept such as "instinct" is
absolutely insufficient to shed light on living creatures' conscious
behaviour. Of course there is a power that programmes living
creatures and teaches them what to do. But this is not a result of
"Mother Nature" as it is called, nor of the living creature itself, which
will defend its young at the cost of its own life, or which will go back
to deceive the enemy with various tactics in order to save the life of
another member of its own group.
The power which gives them all these characteristics, which
creates their intelligent behaviour and purposeful movements,
belongs to God. God is the only lord of that intelligence which we
witness in living creatures in countless examples in nature. It is God
Who inspires living creatures to do what they do.
It is impossible to explain the behaviour of any living creature by
coincidence, or by any other mechanism or interesting concept. No
such claim can be any more than a deception. All this is revealed in
one of His verses:

Say: 'Have you ever seen your associates whom you appeal to instead
of to God? Show me what they have created of the earth; or do they
have a partnership in the heavens?' Have We given them a Book
whose Clear Signs they follow? No indeed! The wrongdoers promise
each other nothing but delusion. (Surah Fatir: 40)