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The Miracle of Silk 85

perfect planning of the spider's body and its purposeful behaviour cannot
be explained by any event in nature or any other force. That the spider
was unable to do all of this for itself is a fact that any intelligent person
can see. It is not possible, therefore to explain the spiders' purposeful
behaviour and physical structure by changes over time or any other
evolutionary process.
All living creatures in nature have characteristics similar to, or even
more detailed, than those of the spider. Observing any one of them will
suffice to confirm the obvious planning in these living creatures. The
existence of a force which governs all of them is quite clear. Their physical
planning, or else their behaviour prove that these living things were made
by a creator, in other words, by God. It is enough to use our intelligence

to see this. God, the Lord of all the worlds has announced this fact to
mankind with His verse, '(He is) The Lord of the East and the West and
everything between them. If only you used your intellect.' (Surat ash-
Shu'ara': 28)

The Spider's Silk and the Defence Industry
A material's strength and elasticity are of great importance in the
industrial sector. Strength widens the field in which it can be used, and
elasticity increases the ease with which it can be applied. From the point
of view of strength and elasticity, spider thread is the most perfect
material in the world. For this reason researchers greatly increased their
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studies of spider silk in the last quarter of the 20 century. As a result of
these they have been able to produce by chemical means only something
resembling spider silk but of much poorer quality. In short, modern

technology, despite all its resources and research, has been unable to
produce a thread with qualities equivalent to that which the spider
makes.
Spider thread is a protein principally consisting of the amino acids
glycine, alanine, serine and tyrosine. The Du Pont company has produced
various synthetic fibres by unearthing the chemical formula of the silk