ARCHITECTS IN NATURE

ARCHITECT IN NATURE: THE TRUE SOURCE OF ART

2009-04-02T20:51:00.000-07:00

THE TRUE SOURCE OF ART

The honey bees which make flawless hexagonal combs, beavers which build dams with fine engineering calculations, termites which erect complicated skyscrapers with their blind eyes, weaver birds, wild bees which make apartment blocks out of paper, and thousands of other expert architects in nature…

The skills of these living creatures reveal to us their skills, which are actually given to them by Allah, by exhibiting these surprising works of architecture. Each one of them acts by Allah’s inspiration. Because, as is announced in a verse of the Qur’an:

“ I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord. There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock” (Qur’an Huud, 11: 56)

Yet there is still another living thing that brings forth architectural marvels with the inspiration and skills given him by Allah, to whom the most marvelous works in the world belong. That creature is man.

Many people in our day are unaware of this fact. And in the face of peoples’ works, they only feel amazement for those people themselves. Whereas it is Allah who gives a human being his body, emotions, intelligence and who inspires in him the feelings of art and aesthetics.
The marvelous works which people think are man’s are actually each and every one a manifestation of Allah’s infinite art and knowledge. For this reason, the real one we should truly wonder at and praise in the face of every kind of beauty, aesthetic, and splendour we see is the great Allah, who created all these concepts and who inspires these as He wishes in the living things He creates.

He reveals this in a verse of the Qur’an:

“All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of the earth,Lord of all the worlds. All greatness belongs to Him in the heavens and earth He is the Almighty, the All-Wise” (Qur’an Al-Jaatsiyah, 45:36-37 )

From Film Harun Yahya: Architect In Nature

ARCHITECT IN NATURE: THE EVOLUTION DECEPTION

2009-04-02T20:48:00.000-07:00

THE EVOLUTION DECEPTION

The 19th century may go down in human history as “the century of deceptions ”. Because in that period many philosophies with no scientific basis, such as Marxism, were imposed on mankind But the greatest deception of the 19th century was the theory of evolution, put forward by a British biologist called Charles Darwin

In his book “The Origin of Species,” published in 1859, Darwin claimed that all living things in nature had come about as the result of coincidences. This theory appeared quite believable given the primitive level of 19th century science, and it was soon widely accepted. However, modern scientific discoveries have demolished Darwin’s claims.

Palaeontology, or the science of fossils, shows that different living groups emerged in the world suddenly and underwent no evolution over hundreds of millions of years. Anatomy and biochemistry have proven that there are very complex structures in living things, and that these cannot come about by coincidences And biological observations have revealed that living species in nature do not possess the mechanisms for them to turn into one another. For these reasons, Darwinism today is a theory that has scientifically collapsed

Living creatures’ intelligent behaviour that we have observed in this film is another important fact that overturns the theory of evolution. Evolutionists call the intelligent behaviour that animals exhibit without undergoing any special training “instinct ”. But they cannot explain how a living creature comes by this instinct

In his book “The Origin of Species,” Darwin devoted a whole section to the subject. At the very start of this section called “Instinct,” he admits how deadly the intelligent behaviour in animals is from the point of view of his theory.

“So wonderful an instinct as that of the hive-bee making its cells will probably have occurred to many readers, as a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p 233)

Darwin was especially baffled by the architectural skill of the honey bee, and asked himself, What shall we say to so marvellous an instinct as that which leads the bee to make cells, which have practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians?.The answer Darwin gave to this question was “habit ”.

In other words, he suggested that a living creature developed a habit over the course of its life and then passed this habit on to its young genetically, and that an inherited instinct thus developed over time. In putting forward this claim, Darwin was basing it on the theories of the French biologist Lamarck, who lived before him.

But the science of genetics, which developed in the 20th century, showed that Lamarck’s theories were nonsense, and that a living thing cannot pass on a feature or habit it has acquired during its life to the next generation. Therefore, Darwin’s explanation of the subject of instinct is based on nonsense.

Another dilemma instinct poses to the theory of evolution is the problem that living creatures possess instinct from the moment they are born. Because an animal which lacked the necessary instinct would be unable to survive

An offspring which did not possess the instinct of sucking its mother’s milk would be unable to live. This demonstrates that instinct cannot have come about by stages over time, as evolutionists claim. For all these reasons, instinct is a reality capable of demolishing the theory of evolution all by itself, as Darwin had feared.

In his book “The Great Evolution Mystery,” the evolutionist writer Gordon Taylor makes this confession:

“When we ask ourselves how an instinctive pattern of behaviour arose in the first place and became hereditarily fixed we are given no answer”

It is really impossible for evolutionists to explain where instinct comes from. Because the source is not coincidences, as they think, but the inspiration Allah gives to living things

From Script Film Harun Yahya: Architect In Nature

ARCHITECT IN NATURE: THE SPIDER

2009-04-02T20:46:00.000-07:00

THE SPIDER

Spiders, on the other hand, make their webs with threads from their own bodies. Spider thread is five times stronger than steel of the same thickness. Even large flies which move fast through the air cannot escape the strong and flexible trap of the spider web

There are sticky droplets on Black Widow spider webs. It is impossible for prey caught in these webs to free themselves. The spider’s web is sticky, flexible, and amazingly strong. Beyond being a trap for the spider, this web is actually an extension of its own body. The spider feels the vibration of very living thing that gets caught in the web, and catches it with no delay

The web is produced in the spider’s hind quarters. It pulls the thread produced by a special organ with its legs. The sticky droplets on the surface of the thread are actually small bunches of thread. These open out when necessary and the web easily stretches. There is no doubt that it is the inspiration Allah gives this creature that causes the spider to build this architectural marvel.

From Script Film Harun Yahya: Architect In Nature

ARCHITECTS IN NATURE: THE POTTER BEE

2009-04-02T20:44:00.000-07:00

THE POTTER BEE

These small pots you see belong to another species of wild bee. This wild bee makes a sticky mud by mixing its saliva with moist soil. It makes exceedingly regular pots by using this mud it makes. It gives form to the mud by continually turning round, the same technique used by human beings to make pots

When the pot is finished it does not neglect to add on a lid. When everything is ready, the bee turns its rear towards the mouth of the pot and leaves an egg inside. After adding some food materials to the pot it seals the mouth up and flies off. The larva which hatches from the egg will later break the pot and emerge and start life on its own.

These are pots broken by the young and then abandoned. The young which emerge start to build faultless pots, just like their mothers did, and with no training. This perfect craft they possess was inspired in them by Allah, who created them.

From Script Film Harun Yahya: Architect In Nature

ARCHITECTS IN NATURE : THE WILD BEE

2009-04-02T20:42:00.000-07:00

THE WILD BEE

Another living creature reminiscent of the honey bee with its architectural skill is the wild bee. This species of wild bee chews pieces of wood and uses them to produce cellulose, in other words paper, in its mouth. Then it uses this paper to build itself a round nest.

It makes hexagonal combs, just like honey bees, from the paper which it sticks to the inside of the roof. It places an egg into each hexagon, on the roof. Some three weeks later, larvae emerge from these eggs.

These larvae demonstrate a surprising intelligence, and close up the mouths of the comb, which their mothers leave open. In this way the avoid falling to the floor under their own weight. After a few more weeks of growth, they emerge from their combs as adult bees. The young bees lose no time in throwing themselves into life

Every task they have to perform is inspired in them by their creator, Allah. The young enlarge the construction which their mothers began. At the end, a rather large colony emerges. The bees’ nest is now a multi-storied apartment block. Every wild bee born here will abide by the letter to the inspiration given it.

From Script Film Harun Yahya : Architect In Nature

ARCHITECTS IN NATURE : WEAVER BIRDS

2009-04-02T20:40:00.000-07:00

WEAVER BIRDS

Another of nature’s master architects are weaver birds, which build their nests by sewing blades of grass to one another. In order to build a nest, a weaver bird first forms a triangular framework. Then it covers the outside of this frame by tying three different kinds of knots. Each nest has a sound frame, walls, and an entrance.

The first step in the construction of the nest is the tying of a long, thin blade of grass to a thin branch. But that is by no means easy. The weaver bird has a real struggle to tie just one knot. It is very important for this first knot to be in the correct form. Otherwise, there will be no point in continuing with the construction of the rest of the nest. Because if the first knot is wrong, then the rest of them will all be wrong too, as they are all based on the first one. The knots multiply over time, and take on the form of a hoop

The bird has to carefully calculate the dimension of the hoop it forms. The hoop has to be big enough for itself to enter, but small enough to keep other, larger birds out. The bird gets the ideal size for the hoop right, at once, and every time. After weaving the foundation hoop around it in this manner, it begins to build the roof space. The technique weaver birds use to build their nests is the same as that used by human weavers. They weave the blades of grass by passing them under and over each other

They employ this technique with great patience, and eventually construct perfect nests. When one looks at the trees weaver birds live in, they look like giant cities made of hundreds of houses, not just a single one. Every single weaver bird has built a house of the same construction, obeying the same compulsion.

From Script HARUN YAHYA: Architech In Nature

ARCHITECTS IN NATURE : TINY ARCHITECTS - Termites

2009-04-02T20:35:00.000-07:00

TINY ARCHITECTS

When we look at the other architects in nature, we can clearly see that each one is a miracle of creation. Let us have a look at a few out of the thousands of examples

Termites

Termites are small insects resembling ants, They live in colonies and build giant nests for themselves. The building blocks of the nest are bricks made from soil, which worker termites make by using their saliva as mortar. The size of a termite nest can sometimes be as much as three or four metres

The architecture of these nests, which are like giant skyscrapers compared to the size of the termites, is stunning. The inside of termite nests is full of narrow passages. In the depths of these corridors, some 1 5 million termites work together in great harmony. When we look at a cross section of a nest, we see there are a special chamber for the queen, agricultural areas, storehouses, and air-conditioning passages

The termites both see to the construction and repair of the nest, and also prepare to meet any potential enemies, as well as engaging in agriculture inside the nest by growing fungus. The survival of such a large population depends on one very important condition: the stabilization of the nest’s heat and moisture balance

The solution to this problem is absolutely perfect. Parallel panels are built in the roof area of the termite nest. These panels, made of mud, absorb the moisture given off by the termites’ bodies. This moisture evaporates with the heat inside and heads upwards through the nest’s air-conditioning channels. This evaporation both lowers the temperature of the nest, and also ensures a continuous circulation of air. These panels in the termite nest perform a flawless air-conditioning functio. And there are other amazing examples of termites’ construction knowledge

Another species of termite, which lives in the plains of northern Australia, makes nests in the shape of a dagger, very wide but with very fine edges. The secret of these nests lies in their angle to the sun. The termites build their nest at such an angle that in the afternoon, when the sun is at its height, only a very small surface of the nest faces the sun, and thus heating is kept to a minimum. The same angle is employed in all this species’ nests, with no mistakes. But the most striking feature of this subject is that the termites which do all this wonderful building are blind.

So, how do these tiny creatures, which cannot see a centimeter in front of them, construct these giant towers based on fine engineering calculations?

How do the 1 5 million termites in one nest manage such perfect cooperation?

Biologist David Attenborough, a famous English naturalist, makes this comment on the question in one of his documentaries. Each worker paves its pleated mud in a position demanded by a Master Plan. How they are able to do so, we don't begin to understand. This Great Plan, which human beings cannot understand but which termites obey without question, is the inspiration given to these creatures by Allah.

from film Script Harun Yahya: Architect In Nature

ARCHITECTS IN NATURE : BEAVERS AND THEIR MAGNIFICENT DAMS

2009-02-23T00:21:00.000-08:00

BEAVERS AND THEIR MAGNIFICENT DAMS

A short while ago, this small lake you see was a very different place, To be more accurate, there was no lake here at all until very recently. There were hard pebbles lying on dry soil, But an industrious group of workers struggled and made a great effort, and built this lake. These industrious workers are the lovable animals known as beavers

Beavers live together as one big family. Their homes stand at one side of the lake they build through their own efforts

The beavers’ story begins with a male and a female beaver moving off to make a new nest for themselves. The beaver pair will make their home on a river. But in order to do this they first have to block the current, In order to block this current they employ the same methods that man has been using for hundreds of years. They build a dam.

In order to start building the dam they first have to find materials. These consist of tree logs and branches. The beavers start work by going to forested areas beside the river

First they eat a few leaves from the trees they find, But their real task is to cut down the trees and push them over, This they do by gnawing expertly at the tree trunk. The interesting side of this is that they gnaw the trees in such a way that when the job comes to an end the tree always falls in the direction of the water. The cutting and pushing over of the tree is still the job’s crudest component

Later, the beavers split it up into its component branches, and begin to form a dam by laying them out in front of the biggest log they have pushed over. And all this time the only tools they use are their paws and mouths. This work continues with great patience. Two beavers will cut down an average of 400 trees a year

They divide those trees further away from the dam into their separate branches and drag these to their dam, Beavers always use their front teeth when gnawing at tree trunks or branches, As they use them all the time, these front teeth get worn down or break, But the beaver’s jaw is created with this in mind, Its sharp front teeth keep growing, just like a person’s nails.

The great Allah, who created beavers, also created their teeth for the job they would have to do. Beavers’ bodies were designed in such a way as to make it easier for them to swim in water. Their feet are webbed, so they can easily displace water. Their back tail is like a giant paddle, thanks to which they can swim comfortably in the water.

The beavers continue their building with great zeal. They expertly arrange the large tree logs and the small branches and enlarge their dam a little more every day.

As the dam grows, the water that collects in front of it grows higher. At the end of a few months of labour, a large dam lake forms. But as this lake grows, the beavers have to strengthen the dam and repair any cracks.

They carry out this difficult task with great patience

The scene that emerges as the result of several months of hard work is, in a word, magnificent. A real dam, resembling those made by man, has formed. On close inspection, beavers make their dams concave. This shape is not one picked by coincidence. Because the form of dam that best resists water pressure is a dam built to be concave. In fact, the modern hydroelectric power dams of our day are also built concave. In short, beavers possess the construction knowledge, which man attains over time, from the first day of their lives.

So, who gave them that knowledge?

There is no doubt that a living creature cannot come by the ability to build a dam by coincidence. It cannot find the shape of dam that will best resist water pressure by coincidence. And it cannot pass these abilities on to subsequent generations.

It is the great Allah who gives the beaver the skills it possesses, who creates all living things, and inspires what they do. The beavers’ aim in constructing this giant dam is to have a still lake where they can make their nest.

They also make their own nest while they are constructing the dam. The nest is at the edge of the lake, somewhere near the soil. The nest, which looks like a pile of wood when seen from above, is in fact very well designed. The only way into the nest is under water. In order to get inside it is necessary to go through a hidden tunnel. This tunnel emerges into a hidden chamber above the level of the water.

The beaver family lives in this dry and secure chamber. Some beavers build their nest on two floors. The first floor is an entrance and living room, the upper floor a dining room and bedroom. A beaver nest has two underwater entrances and an air vent situated at the top. Inside this wonderful nest, the beavers are not only protected from outside dangers, but also have a comfortable shelter

Their young open their eyes to the world inside the nest. After they have grown a little, they begin to go outside with their parents and meet the world. When they are tired from swimming, what they like best is to climb onto their mothers’ backs…

The little lake the beavers form can sometimes be as much as three or four metres deep. They do not need actually water as deep as this to build their nest

So in that case, why do they make such a deep lake?

The answer to this question becomes apparent in the winter. In winter, the surface of the water freezes and forms a rather thick layer of ice, If the lake is not deep enough, it will freeze right down to the bottom, and the whole thing will turn into a block of ice and this will destroy the beavers’ power of movement. The beavers, as if they know this, try to make the small lake as deep as possible

In this way, in winter a thick layer of water remains under the ice, This is enough for the beavers to move and feed. When one thinks about it, it is clear that what beavers do is truly extraordinary. These small creatures manage to do something that most people could not do without special engineering training

So, who is it that makes them do this?, It is impossible to say that beavers are particularly intelligent creatures

So how do these little animals plan their nests with their special entrances to the water and air conditioning vents?

How do they know how to make dams of the same design as the world’s most modern hydroelectric stations?

These tasks are way beyond these lovable little animals’ intelligence and knowledge. It is clear that there is a great Power which allows them to do what they do

The great Allah, who creates all living things and inspires their behaviour, also inspires beavers to make their perfect dams and nests. Allah reveals his sovereignty over living things in a Qur’anic verse:

“Everyone in the heavens and earth belongs to Him, All are submissive to Him” (Quran Ar-Ruum, 30:26)

ARCHITECTS IN NATURE : THE INSPIRATION GIVEN TO BEES

2009-02-22T23:53:00.000-08:00

THE INSPIRATION GIVEN TO BEES

When you go into the country on a sunny day, the enchanting beauty of flowers draws your attention. When you examine flowers a bit more closely, you come across another interesting living thing. This is the honey bee, the most disciplined of nature’s architects. Honey bees live in colonies and produce one of the world’s most perfect foods, honey. The hide the honey they produce in the hexagonal honeycombs they build

But have you ever wondered why bees always make their combs hexagonal?

Mathematicians sought the answer to this question and after lengthy calculation produced an interesting result?

The best way of building a storehouse, with the greatest capacity but using the least possible amount of materials, is to make the walls hexagonal. Let us think about the other shapes…

If bees built their combs as cylinders, or as pentagonal prisms, then gaps would emerge between them and less honey could be stored in the combs. A honey store of triangles or squares could be built without leaving any gaps.

But here, mathematicians realized a most important point. Of all these geometric shapes, the one with the shortest circumference is the hexagon. For this reason, although they cover the same area, less material is needed for hexagons than for squares and triangles In short, a hexagonal comb is the best shape for ensuring the greatest storage capacity with the least wax .

Another surprising thing about bees is the cooperation between them as they build their combs, When someone sees a completed comb, he may well imagine that it was built as a single block. Whereas bees actually start building their combs from completely different points, Hundreds of bees set about building the comb from three or four different places. They continue building until they meet in the middle. There is not the slightest imperfection or mistake at the place where they meet. Bees also calculate the angle of the individual cells to each other when building their comb. The back to back comb cells are always built at angle of 13 degrees to the ground. That way, both sides of the comb slope upwards, The angle prevents the honey running out of the combs and spilling

Wherever we go in the world, honey bees manage this extraordinary architecture perfectly every time. And they do it in the depths of the hive, in order words in pitch dark where sunlight cannot reach…

There is a very interesting truth here, Bees exhibit these extraordinary characteristics from the moment they are born. They do not learn over time by seeing the comb structure and direction, From the moment they open their eyes they possess the ability to do these things

So who is it who teaches bees this architectural art?…

The answer to this question is given in the Qur’an, The answer to this question is given in the Qur’an. In this book which He sent down to men to show them the true path, Allah reveals the secret of honey bees’ superb abilities in this way.

“ Your Lord inspired the bees: Make hives in the mountains and in the trees and in what they, Then eat of all the fruits and walk in the ways of your Lord submissively build. There comes forth from within it a beverage of many colours, in which there is healing for men, most surely there is a sign in this for a people who reflect”
(Qur’an An-Nahl, 16:68-69)

The secret of living things’ extraordinary behaviour is the inspiration given them by Allah and this applies to all living things, not just to the honey bee. We can see this truth more clearly when we examine other architects in nature.

ARCHITECTS IN NATURE : INTRODUCTION

2009-02-22T22:45:00.000-08:00

Architecture is one of the most important components of human culture. Over thousands of years, different cultures have built architectural wonders, each more striking than the next. Pyramids… Palaces… Cathedrals… Mosques, Each emerges from the calculations of expert architects, from the joint efforts and cooperation of thousands of people. Architecture is a field where the concepts of art and aesthetics, imparted to mankind by Allah, are exhibited. But did you know that there are architects in nature just as skilled as their human counterparts?

Animals in nature attract our attention with the structure of their bodies in particular, The cheetah possesses a perfect skeleton and muscles systems for it to run. The eagle possesses the world’s most aerodynamic design. The dolphin has a specially created skin and body so it can swim in the water. These flawless conceptions in animals’ bodies are each proof to remind us that every species of living thing was created by Allah. But possessing a perfect body is not enough, at the same time, the animal has to know how to use that body. A bird’s wings are only of any use when it succeeds in taking flight, soaring and landing with them.

When we look at living worlds through these eyes, we will see the most interesting truth, Each animal behaves in the most appropriate manner to the condition that surrounds it Furthermore, this behavior occur right from the moment of birth, It takes only half an hour for a new-born antelope to stand up and run. Baby turtles, buried under the sand by the mother turtle, know they have to break out of their shells and head for the surface. Furthermore, they have been taught that as soon as they emerge they have to reach the sea It is almost as if animals come into this world fully trained, The most amazing example of this amazing education animals have is the homes they so expertly build themselves