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The Error of the Evolution
of Species

animal foodstuffs we consume every day.

By setting aside familiarity and prejudice and looking at
the living world, we encounter a very great many plants and
animals that meet our nutritional needs immaculately, with
their chemical structures, attractive smells and delicious fla-
vors. Neither this marvelous harmony nor the countless de-
tails of the planet's food chain can be explained in terms of
chance. These living things have been specially created and

given to us as matchless blessings.
It is God, infinitely compassionate and merciful, Who cre-
ates the plants and animals that are the sources of the food-
stuffs we require. This is revealed in a number of verses:
God is He Who created the heavens and the Earth and
sends down water from the sky and by it brings forth
fruits as provision for you... (Surah Ibrahim, 32)
It is He Who produces gardens, both cultivated and
wild, and palm-trees and crops of diverse kinds, and
olives and pomegranates, both similar and dissimi-
lar. (Surat al-An‘am, 141)

Have they not seen how We creat-
ed for them, by Our own hand-
iwork, livestock which are
under their control? We
have made them tame

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