Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 485
NATURAL SELECTION AND SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST female feed on nectar and other plant sugars as a common source of their survival? Is it not because the female mosquito requires the protein found in the blood of its hosts only in order to synthesize yolk and develop its eggs - a task certainly not needed by the male mosquito? How could natural selection teach only the female members of the species that protein is good for their reproductive organs so they must evolve a most complex system of blood-sucking?. Why did the mosquitoes survive long before this female urge to seek more readily available protein from blood?. How long did it take the female to bring about all the essential fundamental changes in its in its anatomy and synthesize the wonder drug apyrase to transfer to a new mode of survival without which it had already survived for hundreds of thousands of years?. The only sensible answer to this question is that it was purposefully designed and could not accidentally be created by natural selection. Evidently, the negative yet essential role which the mosquitoes were designed to play in the scheme of life must have necessitated the mosquito's propensity towards animal blood. The bloodsucking capability of female mosquitoes remarkably illustrates design in the process of evolution. . Evolutionists consider natural selection to somehow invariably take the right decisions and preserve only that which is good for life. Is the mosquito - the greatest threat to life really the choice and product of natural selection?. According to the Quran, on the other hand, the threat to life created through the mosquito was intended and planned to serve a wide purpose. . The masterly perfection and exquisite implementation of this design has already been discussed above. Now we should like to point out that the Quranic verse on this subject is itself a miracle of literary excellence. Of 464