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THE EXISTENCE OF ALLAH
evolutionists, these plants should long before have been defeated by
environmental conditions and become extinct. Nevertheless, water lilies are
still present today in all their perfection.
The amazing life struggle of water lilies continues well after they reach
light and oxygen on the water surface, where they curl the brims of their
huge leaves upward to prevent them from sinking.
They can continue their lives with all these precautions, yet they also
know that these are not enough for their reproduction. They need a living
being that will carry their pollen to another water lily, and this living being
is a beetle (coleopteran) which has been created with a special weakness for
white colour. They prefer these white water lilies out of all the attractive
flowers of the Amazon River. When Amazon water lilies are visited by
creatures which will continue their species, they close all their leaves,
imprison them, and offer them ample pollen. They let them free after keeping
them for one night, and then change their colour so that they do not bring the
same pollen back to them. The once pure white, glorious water lilies will now
go on adorning the Amazon river in pink.
Such flawless and finely calculated plans are certainly not the work of a
bud unaware of everything. They are the work of the wisdom of Allah, Who
created all things. All the details summarised here show that plants, like all
other living beings in the universe, were created by Allah, Who is All-Wise
and All-Powerful.
CONCLUSION
Can the wind form an airplane by coincidence?
The famous physicist Sir Fred Hoyle makes a very striking observation
about the origin of life. In his book The Intelligent Universe he writes:
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way (by
coincidence) is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping
through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials
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