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174 DESIGN IN NATURE

Greatest Design: Universe
There are unchangeable fundamental laws in the universe, which affect
all animate and inanimate beings alike. These laws are proofs that illustrate
the perfection in the creation of the universe just as are the flawless creatures
that live therein. Today, these hints are presented to us as laws of physics as
discovered largely by physicists. The laws ordinarily accepted as “laws of
physics” are nothing but the evidence of the perfection in creation of Allah.
(For detailed information refer to: Harun Yahya, The Creation of the Universe).
Let us give just a few examples of the perfection of design in the
universe.
For instance, let us examine one of a dozen crucial properties of
rainwater: the “viscosity of water”.
Different liquids have different degrees of viscosity. However, the
viscosity of water is perfect for the use of all creatures. If it was a little higher
than it is, plants could not have used it for transporting the nutrients vitally
important for survival within their capillary tubes.
If the viscosity of water were lower than it is, the flow of rivers would
have been a great deal different, hence the mountain formations would have
changed, valleys and plateaus would not have formed, and rocks could not
have disintegrated to form soil.
Water also facilitates the circulation of the red blood cells that defend
our bodies against microbes and dangerous substances. If water's viscosity
were greater, the movement of these cells within the vessels would have
been totally impossible, the heart would have been overwhelmed in
pumping the blood and would possibly have failed to obtain the energy
necessary for this job.
Even these few examples sufficiently illustrate that water is a fluid that
has been especially created for living beings. Allah, in reference to water,
states in a verse:

It is He who sends down water from the sky. From it you drink and from
it come the shrubs among which you graze your herds. And by it He
makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and grapes and fruit of
every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect. (Surat
an-Nahl: 10-11)