Channels That Only Show Animals’ Savage Aspects Are Engaging in Darwinist Propaganda

Recently various TV channels with conservative reputations have, in their documentary broadcasts, been giving an impression of a savage and ruthless nature. Broadcasts just about every evening insist on providing no images apart from those of animals hunting one another. No information is provided about the glorious structures inherent living things and their altruistic and intelligent behavior.

Images of this kind being screened as documentaries are in fact a form of Darwinist propaganda. In this way, without actually referring to Darwinism or the theory of evolution, the message is sent out that savagery, conflict and struggle, the very foundations of Darwinist ideology, are “naturally present in nature.” The aim is to give people who watch these documentaries the impression of a system among living things in which the strong invariably crush the weak. Viewers familiarized with this idea are thus, in a way, conditioned to believe in  the worst deception in all history, the theory of evolution. They become indoctrinated with the idea of the strong crushing the weak and of weak species being eliminated, which represents the essential and perverse foundation of the theory of evolution. In short, THESE IMAGES OF SAVAGERY shown as “documentaries” ARE IN FACT BLATANT DARWINIST PROPAGANDA.

The surprising thing is that the channels in question IN NO WAY REFER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAME LIVING THINGS OR THEIR ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR. It is of course quite true that living things will hunt another for food, and some living things have indeed been created in that way. But hunting is just one out of thousands of a living thing’s characteristics. Animals possess such glorious attributes that it is truly breathtaking the way in which these channels never mention them. They never discuss such miraculous properties as the extraordinary precautions a herd of elephants take to protect a baby, the way a crocodile carries the young Caretta caretta turtles into the sea between its jaws, the way that male and female cichlid fish take  turns to ensure no harm befalls their eggs and that they receive enough oxygen, or that male penguins hold their eggs on their feet and stand without moving for months during the winter without eating anything at all. There is never any mention of the birds’ ability to build their own nests, the bees’ ability to build honey combs with immaculate angles, the dams constructed by beavers, termite nests that rise many meters high or the glory in an insect that beats its wings 1,000 times a second.


Why Is It Important to Describe the Beautiful Features in the Living World?

Darwinism generally employs demagoguery and is disseminated using cunning methods. Since it is a theory that has been utterly demolished by all the scientific evidence, it avoids science and uses demagogic techniques to further its propaganda. (See Darwinist Propaganda Techniques) The way that documentaries about savage behavior are shown on some conservative channels is a part of this stratagem. The channels in question have, consciously or not, fallen into this cunning trap, with which Darwinists seek to influence the conservative community. People who are unaware that the theory of evolution is a fraud that adopts chance as its false god may therefore be negatively affected by this sly propaganda.

Reports about evolution are sometimes carried directly in the conservative written press. Occasionally, part of this press will realize its error and immediately retract such reports, while others persist in this important error. The Darwinist dictatorship that dominates the world reveals its influence here. The evolutionary propaganda on some conservative TV channels as described above is either the product of ignorance or else reveals the true scope of the influence of the Darwinist system of indoctrination. But whatever the reason may be, the channels in question need to realize the scale of their error and to renounce such mistakes as quickly as possible.

The living world is full of breathtaking and stunning characteristics. Each one is powerful and beautiful enough to lead a person to have faith in Allah and to appreciate His greatness. Therefore, the best thing for these channels to do would be to show these details that reveal the artistry of Allah. Otherwise, they will be supporting a superstitious theory that has led to bloodthirsty communist and fascist regimes whose ideologies have inflicted horrific scourges, war,  slaughter and mayhem on the world, a pernicious ideology that is still the cause of savagery, disorder and lovelessness, a nightmarish pseudo-philosophy that represents the intellectual basis of all terrorist activities, including those of the PKK and that foolishly seeks to deny the existence of a Creator by adopting blind chance as its false god (surely Allah is beyond that).

All those channels that only show the savage side of animals in their documentaries need to realize the danger, be aware of the error they have fallen into and take immediate precautionary measures. They possess significant means by which they can be instrumental in people coming to belief by telling them of the signs leading to faith, and they must use these in the most effective way for Allah’s good pleasure.

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Designs inspired by spider webs

• How do spider webs prevent computers from overheating?

• How is violin string made from spider web?
• How do spider webs hold water?

Spider webs are truly a wonder of architecture and engineering, as well as their qualities such as strength, flexibility and use advantages.

It is known by virtually everyone that spiders use the silky threads produced in their own bodies to set a web. However, the production phases of this silk and its general characteristics are not so well- known. This silk thread, which spiders produce and the diameter of which is less than  one millimeter, is five times stronger than steel of the same thickness. Also it can flex four times its own length.

Another striking characteristic of the silk is that it is very lightweight. We can explain this with an example. The weight of a silk thread that will circle the earth would weigh only 320 grams. Scientists are resuming their research to technologically benefit from these characteristics of the spider thread.

Spider Silk  Prevents Computers From Overheating

Researchers have concluded that spider silk can conduct heat 800 times better than all other organic materials in the world. However, whereas spider silk can conduct heat with a rate of 416 W/m-K (watt/meter Kelvin), the same rate is 401 W/m-K in copper. Human skin can conduct electricity by only 0.6 W/m-K. While spider silk is ahead of copper, which is one of the materials that conduct heat the best, when it is compared to silicone aluminum and pure iron, it is again superior. This superiority of the spider silk only falls behind when compared to silver and diamond.

The secret behind the conductivity of spider silk is the molecular structure of the silk Allah created specially for these beings. Spider silk is formed by a combination of hard, crystal pieces that self-generate as well as dynamic and elastic pieces.

Scientists think that they can better understand its conductivity by examining the spider silk’s characteristics of creation. They note that these organic materials can be used in computers, which are made of substances that conduct heat by using this feature of the web, and that spider silk can be used in many fields from electronics to summer clothing.

The physical features of spiders and their behaviors clearly prove that these beings were created by Allah. Allah, the Lord of all worlds, reveals this truth to the people with the verse; "He said, ‘The Lord of the East and the West and everything between them if you used your intellect.’…" (Surat ash-Shu‘ara’, 28)

Violin String From Spider Web

When researchers who made a type of thread by spinning approximately five thousand silk strings taken from 300 female “Nephila macukala” spiders, which are known for their complex webs, in the same direction, and then made violin strings by spinning three of these threads in the opposite direction, and measuring th pull force of the string, they found that the string can endure less tension than the string traditionally made by using intestines and more tension than modern nylon string covered with aluminum. In addition, when violin strings made in this way are studied under a scanning electron microscope, it was found that they are perfectly round and since they fit together perfectly, a very nice and soft resonance was obtained.

Spiders could not have learned to knitspin this web, which works with perfect planning, on its own as a result of the so-called evolutionary process. Spiders act with the command of Allah like all other beings on earth. Almighty Allah reveals this with the verse; “... when everything in the heavens and earth, willingly or unwillingly, submits to Him and to Him you will be returned?" (Surah Al ‘Imran, 83)

Spider Web Example in Covering Large Sites

Webs built by dew spiders are both aesthetic and amazing in terms of engineering. These spiders build their webs on a horizontal plane to appear like a sheet lying on grass. They use vertical grasses as girders and ensure that the weight on the grass is evenly distributed on this grass.

This method was reproduced by people in order to cover large sites. The Munich Olympics Stadium and JeddahAirport, which are shown as examples of today’s modern architecture works, were built by imitating the webs of these spider species. As in this example, every being people take as an example, and every system they possess are a verse (evidence) of Allah for people. This truth is revealed in Surat al-Jathiyya as such:

And in your creation and all the creatures He has spread about there are Signs for people with certainty. (Surat al-Jathiyya, 4)

Artificial Spider Webs That Hold Water

The capacity of spider web to hold water is very high. Researchers have copied the characteristics of spider web, which hold water drops effectively, and developed a synthetic thread that can be used in holding the water in the atmosphere. Scientists who examined web fibers of uloborus walckenaerius spiders under the microscope found that the water particles that move along the fiber change the web’s structure when they intensify to form drops. In the study, it was understood that the thread made by the substance secreted by this spider forms four times thicker knots in sections that water droplets gather.

Another less known characteristic of spider web is its capacity to collect water from moist air. Scientists who are inspired by this characteristic developed artificial fibers that copy the silk’s structure, and they pointed out the ability of these artificial fibers to collect water. It is considered that these artificial fibers can be used to collect water in the air or to filter chemical products in industrial production.

Spider Web Will Inspire the Internet

In the research conducted on araneus diadematus , a common garden spider that lives in Europe, using computer modeling, it was found that spider webs react differently to different tension levels. As it is known, spider web has a unique quality that softens when needed and then turns back to its original hardness. In the research, it was understood that spider web softens in mild wind and does not show a disruption in general structure, and when a stronger force is applied to a specific point, the web loses its flexibility in this region of the web and breaks off. However, this situation strengthens the general structure and wholeness of the web even more. Research showed that when fibers in different regions break, the web can carry three to twenty percent more weight than it normally does.

Researchers think that with the deciphering of these secrets of the spider web, complex networks like the Internet can be built in a stronger way against disruptions in the future. New visual networks that can be formed like this will not lose their mechanical quality, despite enduring much damage, and no matter which part of the system is attacked, the network will collapse only at a certain point. Thus in many areas from electrical networks and the internet to the textile industry, great leaps will be achieved based on the spider web in future.

During the research conducted to uncover the chemistry of spider threads, threads are taken from  spiders with special machines. In this way, 320 meters (almost three milligrams) of silk can be gathered per animal. Another field that spider threads are used to serve human beings is medicine. Pharmacologists at the University of Wyoming in the USA are using the threads of a spider species called “Nephile” in lieu of catgut in very sensitive operations like tendon and joint operations.

With the acceptance of the superiority of created features, no doubt, evolutionists have experienced a new disappointment and a new sense of hopelessness.  The invalidity of evolutionists’ unscientific claims that beings are in a state of development from the simple to the more complex over time and that their characteristics have formed by coincidence, were once again proved. Allah, the Lord of all worlds, is the One Who creates flawless and unique systems. Allah is the One Who creates all things flawlessly. Those who do not want to accept this will live an unending regret in the hereafter.

He Who created the seven heavens in layers.You will not find any flaw in the creation of the All-Merciful.ऀLook again – do you see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted! Surat al-Mulk, 3-4)

Allah Created Spider Threads in the Best Shape For Its Purpose

It is generally not known that spiders use more than one thread type while making their webs. However, spiders produce different threads in their bodies for different purposes. When one thinks about the life of spiders, it is immediately understood how important this feature is, because the specialty of the thread the spider walks on and the threads it used to catch its prey or to wrap it tightly have to be different from one another. For example, if the thread a spider walks on were adhesive like the thread it uses to catch the prey, the spider would stick on the web and thus it would cause its own death.

These silk threads have different qualities in terms of both flexibility and strength, and they  also have different qualities for thickness and adhesiveness. For example, the hanging thread, which plays a big role in the spider’s life, has a flexible and strong structure even though it is not adhesive. It can carry two to three times the spider’s weight easily. The spider, which also carries its prey together,  can move up and down safely thanks to these ropes.

As it is seen, the spider needs to make very different threads and moreover it must use these different threads in the right places. Even the lack of one of these threads is potentially deadly for the spider. None of the qualities spiders have could have emerged phase by phase as the theory of evolution suggests.  Sine the first spiders on earth, all spiders have  existed in their complete form. All of these point to the evidences that they emerged all of a sudden and that Allah created them. Allah shows us His infinite power and matchless knowledge with the superior miracle of creation in spiders. Allah reveals this truth in one verse:

Everything in the heavens and the earth glorifies Allah. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs to Him.ऀHe gives life and causes to die.He has power over all things.(Surat al-Hadid, 1-2)

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SPIDERS' FISHING TECHNIQUES

Some spiders hunt in even the most unexpected environments. For example, the hunting field of the water-spider Dolomedes is the surface of water. This spider is mostly to be found in shallow places such as marshes and ditches.

The water-spider, which lacks good eyesight, spends most of its time by the side of the water spinning threads and spreading them over its surroundings. These serve two functions at the same time: they are a kind of warning to other spiders, setting the limits of its own territory, and they also form an escape route in the event of unexpected danger.

The spider's most frequently used hunting method is to put four of its legs on the water while the other four hold on to dry land. While doing this, it employs a most clever technique to avoid sinking. The spider covers those of its legs which will go into the water with a water-proof coating by passing them through its fangs. It then approaches the edge of the water. Pushing its body down with great care, it moves on to the surface of the water. It places its fangs and feelers under the water in such a way as not to disturb the surface. It waits for a living creature to approach, with its eyes looking around it and its legs feeling for vibrations in the water. To feed itself, the spider needs to find prey at least the size of the "Golyan" fish.

When the spider is hunting, it stays motionless until the fish comes within 1.5 centimeters of its jaws. Then it suddenly enters the water, catches the fish in its legs, and bites it with its venomous fangs. Then, in order to stop the fish, which is much bigger than it, from dragging it under the water, it immediately turns upside down. The venom quickly takes effect. It not only kills the prey, but also dissolves the prey's internal organs, turning them into a kind of soup and making them easy to digest. When the prey is dead, the spider drags it on to the shore and feeds. (Science and Technology Gorsel Science and Technology Encyclopedia, p. 494, 495)

At this point various questions spring to mind. How did the spider come by that wax which stops it sinking? How did it learn to coat its legs with it against the risk of sinking? How did the spider come by the wax's formula and how did it make it? The spider certainly did not bring about all of these things-each one of which bears the mark of intelligence-of its own volition. Like all other living creatures, this species of spider acts in such an intelligent way, is capable of making such a plan and putting it into practice by inspiration from God. In one of His verses, God states that He gives every creature its own provision:

There is no creature on the earth which is not dependent upon God for its provision. He knows where it lives and where it dies. They are all in a Clear Book. (Surah Hud: 6)

Jun 30, 2005
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THE SUPERIOR FLIGHT SYSTEM IN INSECTS

THE SUPERIOR FLIGHT SYSTEM IN INSECTS

How can a midge manages to beat its wings 1,000 times a second?
How does a flea leap hundreds of times its own height?
Why does a butterfly fly forwards when its wings beat up and down?

The fly is one of the creatures referred to in the Qur’an, as only one of the many animals that reveal the infinite knowledge of our Lord. Almighty Allah speaks of this matter in verse 73 of Surat al-Hajj:

 

O humanity! A likeness has been made, so listen to it carefully. Those you call upon apart from Allah are not even able to create a single fly, even if they were to join together to do it. And if a fly steals something away from them, they cannot get it back from it. How feeble are both the seeker and the sought! (Surat al-Hajj: 73)

Despite recent research, despite all the technologies that Allah has placed at the disposal of humanity, a great many characteristics of living things still preserve their miraculous aspects. As in all things that Allah has created in the body of a fly gives abundant evidence of a superior knowledge. By considering its intricacy, any thinking person can once again reflect on his deep respect for Allah and devotion to Him.

Some of the investigations that scientists have carried out on the flight systems of flies and other small insects are detailed below. The conclusion emerging from this is that no haphazard, trial-and-error force or entity other than Allah can have created the complexity of even a fly.

 

The flight muscles of many insects such as the locust and dragonfly contract powerfully as a result of stimuli emitted by the nerves that control their every movement. In the locust, for example, signals sent by each nerve cause the flight muscles to contract. By working alternately, not against each another, two complementary groups of muscles, the so-called elevators and depressors, allow the wings to rise up and beat down. Locusts beat their wings 12 to 15 times a second, and in order to be able to fly smaller insects must beat theirs even more rapidly.

Honeybees, wasps and flies beat their wings from 200 to 400 times a second, and in midges and some parasites only 1 millimeter (0.03 inch) in size, that rate rises to an astounding 1,000 times a second! Wings beating too fast for the human eye to see have been created with a special structure in order to exhibit such sustained performance.

 

A nerve is able to send at most 200 signals a second. Then how can a small insect able to beat its wings 1,000 times a second? Research has established that in these insects, there is no one-to-one relationship between signals from the nerves and frequency of wing beats.

Bluebottle flies beat their wings 200 times a second, but their nerve and muscle structures are very different from those of locusts. Only one signal comes from the nerve for every 10 wing beats. In addition, these so-called “fibrous muscles” work very differently compared to locusts.

Nerve impulses regulate only the muscles’ preparations for flight. Once the muscles achieve a specific tension, they contract of their own accord.

 

In these special systems, created independently in the body of every insect, there is not the slightest irregularity. Their nerves never emit an incorrect signal, and the insects’ muscles always interpret them correctly.

 

In such species as flies and bees, the muscles that allow flight are not even attached to the wing base! Instead, they attach to the chest by joints that serve as a kind of hinge, while the muscles that lift the wing upwards are attached to the upper and lower surfaces of the chest.

When these muscles are contracted, the chest surface flattens and draws the wing base down. The lateral surface of the wing provides a support function and permits the wings to rise. The muscles establishing downward movement are not attached directly to the wing, but operate along the length of the chest. When these muscles are contracted, the chest is retracted in the opposite direction, and the wings are thus drawn downwards.

 

The wing joint is formed of a special protein known as resilin, which possesses superb elasticity. Since its features are far superior to those of natural or synthetic rubber, chemical engineers are trying to reproduce this substance, in laboratories. In flexing and contracting, resilin is able to store almost all of the energy exerted on it; and when the force pressing on it is lifted, it is able to give back all that energy.

 

As a result, resilin is up to 96% efficient. During wing lift, some 85% of the energy expended is stored for later; this same energy is then re-used in the downward movement that provides lift and propels the insect forward. Its chest walls and muscles have been created with a special structure to make possible this accumulation of energy. However, the energy is actually stored in the joints consisting of resilin.

 

It’s of course impossible for an insect, by means of its own efforts, to equip itself with such an extraordinary mechanism for flight. The infinite intelligence and might of Allah has created this special resilin in the insects’ bodies.

 

For smooth flight, straight up-and-down wing movement alone is not sufficient.. In order to be able to provide lift and propulsive force, the wings must also have to change their angle of motion during every beat. Insects’ wings possess a particular rotational flexibility, depending on the species, which is provided by their so-called direct flight muscles (or DFMs, for short) that produce the forces needed for flight.

 

When insects seek to climb higher in the air, they increase their wing angle by contracting still further these muscles between the wing joints.

Fast-frame and stop-motion photographs have shown that during flight, the wings follow an elliptical course and that for each wing’s cycle, its angle alters systematically. This variation is caused by the changing movements of the direct muscles and the wings’ attachment to the body.

 

The greatest problem faced by very small insect species during flight is air resistance. For them, sheer air density becomes an obstacle for these creatures that can’t be underestimated. Moreover, a restrictive layer around the wing causes the air to clingto the wings, leading to a loss in flight efficiency. In order to be able to overcome that air resistance, flies such as Forcipomya, whose wings are no more than 1 millimeter wide, must beat them 1,000 times a second.

 

Scientists believe that theoretically, even this speed is insufficient to keep these insects aloft, and that they must employ some other additional system. In fact, Anarsia, a kind of parasite, makes use of a method known as “beat and shake.” When its wings reach the highest point in their lift, they strike against each another and then open down again. As the wings, with their string vein, open the front air current first sets up a vortex around the wings and assist with the wing beat lift force.

 

Many species of insects, the locusts included, take note of visual data such as the line of the horizon to determine their direction of flight and eventual destination. For determining their position, flies have been created with an even more extraordinary structure. . These insects have only a single pair of wings, but to the rear of each, there is a knob-shaped lobe known as the halter. Although the halters produce no lift force, they vibrate together with the front wings. When the fly changes its direction of flight, these wing extensions prevent it from deviating off course.

 

All the information provided here results from studies into the flight techniques of just three or four insect species. Bear in mind that the total number of insect species on Earth is around 10 million. Considering all these remaining millions of species, along with the countless features they contain, one must increase still further one’s amazement at the infinite might of Allah.

 

A Solution to Venous Disorders from the Flea Gene

 

Scientists have succeeded in separating out the resilin gene from fruit flies and managed to reproduce this protein naturally by injecting the gene into a Escherichia coli bacteria.

 

In the course of one study carried out by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), scientists who succeeded in identifying the gene that produces insects’ resilin also identified a powerful polymer that may prove useful in the treatment of vein diseases. Studies that began in the 1960s, concentrating on the desert locust and dragonfly, were a powerful factor in advancing this most important step.

 

Resilin, which also gives fleas the ability to make their enormous leaps, gives these and other insects an astonishing capability of movement. Thanks to this substance, fleas are able to jump many hundreds of times their own height and some flies are able to beat their wings over 200 times a second.

 

The protein obtained from resilin is far better than the highest-quality rubber products in its ability to resist pressure and revert to its former shape. Continuing experiments on artificial resilin show that the protein still maintains these features.

 

Scientists state their belief that the polymer obtained from cloning insects’ genes can be employed in a variety of very different fields, from medicine to industry. But perhaps the most important of these applications will be treating arterial disease in humans. Because resilin resembles the protein elastin in human veins, scientists hope that their studies will endow veins with renewed elasticity.

 

The British Professor Roger Greenhalgh states that “This research [into resilin] seems to be at a very early stage, but if we could take something good out of the elasticity of the flea that benefits humans, that would be most impressive.”¹

 

References:

"Synthesis and properties of cross linked recombinant pro-resilin,"; by Christopher M. Elvin, Andrew G. Carr, Mickey G. Huson, Jane M. Maxwell, Roger D. Pearson, Tony Vuocolo, Nancy E. Liyou, Darren C. C. Wong, David J. Merritt and Nicholas E. Dixon, Nature 437, 999-1002 (13 October 2005) | doi: 10.1038/nature04085; "Flea protein may repair arteries" BBC News, October 12, 2005

 

Apr 18, 2007
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LIDAH BUNGLON LEBIH CEPAT DARIPADA PESAWAT JET TEMPUR

Buku-buku teks zologi menjelaskan bahwa lidah balistik bunglon diperkuat oleh seutas otot pemercepat (akselerator). Otot ini memanjang ketika menekan ke bawah pada tulang lidah, yang berupa tulang rawan kaku di tengah lidah, yang membungkusnya.  Akan tetapi, dalam sebuah penelitian yang telah disetujui untuk diterbitkan oleh majalah ilmiah Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (Series B), dua ahli morfologi yang memelajari kebiasaan makan bunglon menemukan unsur-unsur lain yang terkait dengan gerakan cepat lidah binatang ini. (1)

Kedua peneliti Belanda ini, Jurriaan de Groot dari Universitas Leiden, dan Johan van Leeuwen dari Universitas Wageningen, mengambil film-film sinar X berkecepatan tinggi, yakni 500 bingkai per detik, dalam rangka menyelidiki bagaimana lidah bunglon bekerja ketika menangkap mangsa.  Film-film ini menunjukkan bahwa ujung lidah bunglon mengalami percepatan 50 g (g = konstanta gravitasi).  Percepatan ini lima kali lebih besar daripada yang dapat dicapai oleh sebuah jet tempur.

Para peneliti ini membedah jaringan lidah dan menemukan bahwa otot pemercepat sama sekali tidak cukup kuat untuk menghasilkan gaya yang diperlukan ini sendirian.  Dengan meneliti lidah bunglon, mereka menemukan keberadaan sedikitnya 10 bungkus licin, yang hingga saat itu belum diketahui, di antara otot pemercepat dan tulang lidah.  Bungkus-bungkus ini, yang melekat ke tulang lidah di ujungnya yang terdekat dengan mulut, teramati mengandung serat-serat protein berajutan spiral.  Serat-serat ini memadat dan berubah bentuk ketika otot pemercepat mengerut dan menyimpan tenaga bagaikan seutas pita karet yang tertekan.  Ketika mencapai ujung bulat tulang lidah, bungkus-bungkus yang ketat dan memanjang ini secara bersamaan menggelincir dan mengerut dengan kekuatan dan melontarkan lidah.  Secepat serat-serat ini menggelincir dari tulang lidah, bungkus-bungkus saling memisahkan diri bagaikan tabung-tabung sebuah teleskop, dan karena itu lidah mencapai jangkauan terjauhnya.  Van Leeuwen berkata, “ini adalah ketapel teleskopis.”

Ketapel ini memiliki ciri lain yang amat menyolok.  Ujung lidah mengambil bentuk hampa pada saat menghantam mangsa.  Ketika terlontar, lidah ini dapat menjulur sejauh enam kali panjangnya ketika istirahat di dalam mulut, dan dua kali panjang tubuhnya sendiri.

Jelaslah bahwa bungkus-bungkus yang saling terhubung pada lidah bunglon ini tidak pernah dapat dijelaskan menurut evolusi.  Dalam wacana itu, mari kita ajukan pertanyaan-pertanyaan berikut:

1.  Bagaimanakah masing-masing bungkus ini berevolusi ke tempatnya yang benar?

2.  Bagaimanakah lidah tumbuh sedemikian panjang?

3.  Bagaimanakah otot pemercepat muncul?

4.  Bagaimanakah bungkus-bungkus menyelaraskan gerak-geriknya sehingga membuat lidah mencapai panjang maksimumnya?

5.  Bagaimanakah bungkus-bungkus menumbuhkan kemampuan untuk “memanjangkan diri bak tabung-tabung teleskop”?

6.  Bagaimanakah binatang tersebut menyatukan semua bagian ini setelah “meluncurkan” lidah?

7.  Jika lidah ini diperoleh sebagai sifat menguntungkan akibat proses evolusi, lalu mengapa sifat unggul ini tidak berkembang pada binatang-binatang lain dan mengapa binatang-binatang lain tidak memiliki cara berburu yang sama?

8.  Bagaimanakah bunglon (atau binatang yang dianggap moyang peralihannya) dapat bertahan hidup ketika semua sistem yang rumit ini diduga pelan-pelan berevolusi? (2)

Seorang evolusionis tidak akan memiliki jawaban bagi pertanyaan-pertanyaan ini.  Gambar di sebelah kiri, sebuah lukisan yang mewakili penampang melintang lidah bunglon, menyingkapkan bahwa sistem sempurna ini bergantung pada penciptaan yang amat khusus.  Kelompok-kelompok otot dengan sifat-sifat yang berbeda secara tanpa cela melontarkan lidah, memercepatnya, menyebabkan lidah mengambil bentuk isap ketika menghantam mangsanya dan lalu cepat-cepat menariknya.  Kelompok-kelompok otot ini sama sekali tidak saling menghalangi fungsi masing-masing, namun bekerja dengan cara yang terselaraskan dalam menghantam mangsa dan menarik lidah kembali ke mulut dalam waktu kurang dari sedetik.   Tambahan lagi, berkat kerjasama antara sistem penglihatan dan otak, kedudukan mangsa diukur dan perintah bagi lidah balistik untuk “menembak!” diberikan oleh syaraf yang mengirimkan isyarat di dalam otak.

Sudah pasti, bunglon tidak dapat memikirkan dan merancang sendiri rancangan yang demikian rumit itu.  Penciptaan ini menyingkapkan keberadaan Allah, Sang Mahatahu dan Mahakuasa.  Tidak ada keraguan bahwa Allahlah, Yang Mahakuasa, Mahatahu, dan Mahabijaksana, Yang menciptakan bunglon.

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1. Menno Schilthuizen, "Slip of the Chameleon's Tongue," Science Now, 8 March 2004, http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2004/308/1
2. Brad Harrub, "The Chameleon's Incredible (Tongue) Acceleration!", http://www.apologeticspress.org/inthenews/2004/itn-04-08.htm

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A Leader in The Hive: The Queen Bee

There is an astonishing order in every stage of the social life of bees, with their many miraculous characteristics. The rules in the bee hives and bees’ scrupulous implementation of these rules is just one of these miraculous features. In addition to the rules in the hive, there is another important factor that regulates and supervises the order in their social life: the bees’ leader, in other words the queen.

It can be seen from a short examination of the bee hive that the worker bees devote very special attention to one bee much larger than themselves. This bee, the feeding, cleaning, and protection of which, as well as all its other needs, are taken care of by other bees, is the queen, who ensures the continuity of the colony. 

The Queen: A Very Different Bee

The number of worker bees in a hive may be in the tens of thousands, though there is only one queen. The presence of the queen is of vital importance for the bees, because it is she who lays the eggs that ensure the survival of the colony. The privileged status of the queen begins right from the larva stage. Queens are raised in places with different features to those of other cells. This place where the queen is reared consists of specially prepared cells that hang down from the comb. Since the queen is larger in size than the other bees, it is natural that these cells should be built to be larger than other cells. ⁽¹⁾

The miraculous point here is that the egg that produces the queen is no different to those that produce worker bees.

Due to feeding differences, during the six-day larva stage, a queen bee with a very different appearance and functions to those of a normal female bee emerges. Worker bees are only given royal jelly for three days, whereas the queen is fed with this very valuable substance throughout the entire larval period (six days). ⁽²⁾ The content and amount of the royal jelly fed to the queen are carefully regulated. Research has shown that while the queen is given 10 mg of royal jelly throughout the larval stage, worker bees are only given 3 mg. Two living things, the queen bee and the worker bee, with various morphological (structural) differences between them emerge as a result of this feeding difference alone. ⁽³⁾

Differences between the Queen and Other Bees

The queen differs from other bees in general structure and external appearance. For example, although the worker bees are female, so is the queen.  Their ovaries do not develop; in other words, they are sterile. A queen’s head and thorax (body section) are not much larger than those of worker bees. In total contrast to worker bees, the queen’s jaw lacks the appropriate structure for building wax cells. The queen also lacks the tough hairs that constitute the workers’ pollen sacs. One of the important differences is that, although the queen emerges from an identical egg, she has a life span of four to five years rather than the five to six weeks, (a few months in those around in the winter), of worker bees. This is again solely due to feeding differences.

These are just a few examples of the general differences between the queen and other bees. One point worthy of note here is that female bees emerge as queens or workers solely on the basis of nutritional differences.  

How Does the Queen Regulate the Gender of Other Bees?

One of the most extraordinary attributes of the queen bee is her ability to regulate the genders of the bees in the hive. The queen regulates gender by opening and closing the mouth of the sac in which sperm are preserved. This sac is connected to the egg laying tube by a thin channel. When the queen wishes to lay a female egg she contracts her muscles, drawing a few sperm from the small sac connected to the egg passage channel, and these fertilise the egg there. As a result of this function given to the queen, female bees hatch from fertilized eggs and males from non-fertilised ones. ⁽⁴⁾ Despite the queen bee’s regulation of the eggs, it is actually the workers who determine the egg’s gender. Because the egg-laying performed by the queen is carried out in accordance with the cell type prepared by the workers. If the cell the queen approaches is a 5.2 mm standard cell, she will lay a female egg, whereas if it is 1 mm larger, she will lay a male egg in it. ⁽⁵⁾

Queen Bees Behave under Allah’s Inspiration

All of the details in the lives of queen bees we have examined so far reveal the existence of exceedingly conscious behaviour, a perfect social order, and of designs appropriate to that order. The organism referred to as the queen bee is actually an entity just a few centimetres in length with a brain consisting of very simple synapses. How is it possible for this animal to comprehend why the cells will be constructed and to lay the appropriate egg without confusing them, through its own will and intelligence?

From the moment she hatches to the moment she leaves the hive, the queen bee knows exactly what she has to do. In the verse, “Your Lord revealed to the bees…” (Surat An-Nahl, 68), Allah reveals that all the animal’s actions and the conscious behaviour it displays take place under His inspiration. As with all other living things, Almighty Allah has created queen bees with bodily systems that are completely appropriate to the lives they lead. He is the Creator of all. In one verse from the Qur’an, our Lord reveals: Is He who creates like him who does not create? So will you not pay heed? (Surat An-Nahl, 17)

The Queen’s Authority Substance

Worker bees do not construct queen cells under normal conditions. The presence of the queen in the hive prevents this. This only changes under exceptional circumstances. It will be useful here to examine the secretion known as queen’s substance, in order to understand for what reason workers feel the need to construct a queen cell when they already have a queen at their head. It is this substance that ensures discipline in the hive. For that reason, if all the functions in the hive are to be fully carried out, the queen has to secrete enough of it every day to go around all the bees in the hive. This has been calculated as an average of 0.1 mg per bee. ⁽⁶⁾

Any reduction in this substance sets the worker bees in action. That is because a reduction in the royal secretion is regarded as a sign either that the queen is aging or that the colony is too large. In either case, there are certain steps the workers have to take. ⁽⁷⁾ It is the substance secreted by the queen which prevents the workers from raising a new queen. In the event of a drop in this substance, the workers immediately begin constructing new queen cells. Immediately after the queen lays an egg in these cells, the workers go into action to rear new queens. When conditions suddenly alter and the danger of the colony being left without a queen raises its head they begin feeding some of the already existing larvae on royal jelly and tearing down other cells around. ⁽⁸⁾

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8. Murray Hoyt, The World of Bees, Coward Mcnann Inc, New York, 1965; p. 40

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Lebah Madu

Dan Tuhanmu mewahyukan kepada lebah, "Buatlah sarang-sarang di bukit-bukit, di pohon-pohon kayu, dan di tempat-tempat yang dibikin manusia," kemudian makanlah dari tiap-tiap (macam) buah-buahan dan tempuhlah jalan Tuhanmu yang telah dimudahkan (bagimu). Dari perut lebah itu keluar minuman (madu) yang bermacam-macam warnanya, di dalamnya terdapat obat yang menyembuhkan bagi manusia. Sesungguhnya pada yang demikian itu benar-benar terdapat tanda (kebesaran Tuhan) bagi orang-orang yang memikirkan. (QS. An Nahl, 16:68-69)

Madu dihasilkan dalam jumlah yang jauh lebih banyak daripada kebutuhan lebah. Jelaslah bahwa minuman berkhasiat obat ini diciptakan agar bermanfaat bagi manusia.

 

Hampir semua orang tahu bahwa madu adalah sumber makanan penting bagi tubuh manusia, tetapi sedikit sekali manusia yang menyadari sifat-sifat luar biasa dari sang penghasilnya, yaitu lebah madu.

 

Sebagaimana kita ketahui, sumber makanan lebah adalah sari madu bunga (nektar), yang tidak dijumpai pada musim dingin. Oleh karena itulah, lebah mencampur nektar yang mereka kumpulkan pada musim panas dengan cairan khusus yang dikeluarkan tubuh mereka.

Campuran ini menghasilkan zat bergizi yang baru -yaitu madu- dan menyimpannya untuk musim dingin mendatang.

 

Sungguh menarik untuk dicermati bahwa lebah menyimpan madu jauh lebih banyak dari yang sebenarnya mereka butuhkan. Pertanyaan pertama yang muncul pada benak kita adalah: mengapa lebah tidak menghentikan pembuatan dalam jumlah berlebih ini, yang tampaknya hanya membuang-buang waktu dan tenaga? Jawaban untuk pertanyaan ini tersembunyi dalam kata "wahyu [ilham]" yang telah diberikan kepada lebah, seperti disebutkan dalam ayat tadi.

 

Lebah menghasilkan madu bukan untuk diri mereka sendiri, melainkan juga untuk manusia. Sebagaimana makhluk lain di alam, lebah juga mengabdikan diri untuk melayani manusia; sama seperti ayam yang bertelur setidaknya sebutir setiap hari kendatipun tidak membutuhkannya dan sapi yang menghasilkan susu jauh melebihi kebutuhan anak-anaknya.

 

Pengaturan Yang Luar Biasa Dalam Sarang Lebah

 

Kehidupan lebah di sarang dan pembuatan madunya sangatlah menakjubkan. Tanpa membahas terlalu terperinci, marilah kita amati ciri-ciri utama "kehidupan masyarakat" lebah. Lebah harus melaksanakan banyak "tugas" dan mereka mengatur semua ini dengan pengaturan yang luar biasa.

Rancangan segienam dari petak-petak sarang lebah memungkinkan penyimpanan madu dalam jumlah terbanyak dengan bahan baku pembuatan sarang, yakni lilin, dalam jumlah paling sedikit. Lebah hanyalah serangga berukuran 1-2 cm dan ia melakukan perhitungan itu dengan apa yang telah diilhamkan Tuhannya.

Pengaturan kelembapan dan pertukaran udara: Kelembapan sarang, yang membuat madu memiliki tingkat keawetan yang tinggi, harus dijaga pada batas-batas tertentu. Pada kelembapan di atas atau di bawah batas ini, madu akan rusak serta kehilangan keawetan dan gizinya. Begitu juga, suhu sarang haruslah 35 derajat celcius selama sepuluh bulan pada tahun tersebut. Untuk menjaga suhu dan kelembapan sarang ini pada batas tertentu, ada kelompok khusus yang bertugas menjaga pertukaran udara.

 

Jika hari panas, terlihat lebah sedang mengatur pertukaran udara di dalam sarang. Jalan masuk sarang dipenuhi lebah. Sambil menempel pada kayu, mereka mengipasi sarang dengan sayap. Dalam sarang yang baku, udara yang masuk dari satu sisi terdorong keluar pada sisi yang lain. Lebah pengatur pertukaran udara yang lain bekerja di dalam sarang, mendorong udara ke semua sudut sarang.

 

Perangkat pertukaran udara ini juga bermanfaat melindungi sarang dari asap dan pencemaran udara.

 

Penataan kesehatan: Upaya lebah untuk menjaga mutu madu tidak terbatas hanya pada pengaturan kelembapan dan panas. Di dalam sarang terdapat jaringan pemeliharaan kesehatan yang sempurna untuk mengendalikan segala peristiwa yang mungkin menimbulkan berkembangnya bakteri. Tujuan utama penataan ini adalah menghilangkan zat-zat yang mungkin menimbulkan bakteri. Prinsipnya adalah mencegah zat-zat asing memasuki sarang. Untuk itu, dua penjaga selalu ditempatkan pada pintu sarang. Jika suatu zat asing atau serangga memasuki sarang walau sudah ada tindakan pencegahan ini, semua lebah bertindak untuk mengusirnya dari sarang.

Kehidupan lebah di dalam sarang serta pembuatan madu oleh mereka sangatlah menakjubkan. Lebah melakukan banyak "pekerjaan" dan mereka berhasil melakukannya dengan baik melalui pengaturan (pengorganisasian) yang luar biasa.

 

Untuk benda asing yang lebih besar yang tidak dapat dibuang dari sarang, digunakan cara pertahanan lain. Lebah membalsam benda asing tersebut. Mereka menghasilkan suatu zat yang disebut "propolis" (yakni, getah lebah) untuk pembalsaman. Getah lebah ini dihasilkan dengan cara menambahkan cairan khusus yang mereka keluarkan dari tubuh kepada getah yang dikumpulkan dari pohon-pohon seperti pinus, hawwar, dan akasia.

Getah lebah juga digunakan untuk menambal keretakan pada sarang. Setelah ditambalkan pada retakan, getah tersebut mengering ketika bereaksi dengan udara dan membentuk permukaan yang keras. Dengan demikian, sarang dapat bertahan dari ancaman luar. Lebah menggunakan zat ini hampir dalam semua pekerjaan mereka.

 

Sampai di sini, berbagai pertanyaan muncul dalam pikiran. Propolis mencegah bakteri apa pun hidup di dalamnya. Ini menjadikan propolis sebagai zat terbaik untuk pembalsaman. Bagaimana lebah mengetahui bahwa zat tersebutlah yang terbaik? Bagaimana lebah menghasilkan suatu zat, yang hanya bisa dibuat manusia dalam laboratorium dan menggunakan teknologi, serta dengan pemahaman ilmu kimia? Bagaimana mereka mengetahui bahwa serangga yang mati dapat menimbulkan tumbuhnya bakteri dan bahwa pembalsaman akan mencegah hal ini?

 

Sudah jelas lebah tidak memiliki pengetahuan apa pun tentang ini, apalagi laboratorium. Lebah hanyalah seekor serangga yang panjangnya 1-2 cm dan ia melakukan ini semua dengan apa yang telah diilhamkan Tuhannya. 

 

Jun 14, 2007

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