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Where? To the world of plants. Come on!

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How lovely it is here!

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There must be millions of plants here. Brightly colored, spotlessly clean flowers.

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All kinds of fruits.

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Vegetables.

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Trees. How beautiful they all are.

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Let us now have a closer look at the members of this world.

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Let us learn how they reproduce and see what techniques they use.

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You all know that even giant trees grow from a tiny little seed.

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But do you know where these tiny seeds come from?

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I was once just a tiny seed too.

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I am really curious to learn just how I came into being.

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In order for a seed to form, the female cell inside the plant has to combine with a male reproductive cell from another plant, in other words with pollen.

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But how do they manage that?

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But how do they manage that?

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Plants can't move?

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You are right, plants cannot move.

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But God has created various ways by which pollen from one plant can reach another.

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A lot of pollen is carried by the wind.

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Some people don't like this because these tiny grains cause a lot of people to suffer allergic reactions in the spring.

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A-choo!

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I get this every spring.

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A grain of pollen starts turning into a seed when it reaches that part of another plant containing the egg cell.

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Some plants use special carriers to send their pollen to other plants.

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The most common of these are insects.

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Flowers produce food that insects like and attract them with their bright colors and perfumes.

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That means they are able to pass on their pollens to them.

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They then carry those pollens to other plants.

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The harmony between these different life forms becomes clearer when we have a close look at the relationship between flowers and insects.

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Here is one example.

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This flower which grows in southern Africa is known as the iris.

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It is very difficult for carrier insects to reach the food and pollens made by this attractive flower.

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But look, there is a long tube under its leaves.

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The food and pollens are all at the bottom of this tube.

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The insect that will carry the pollens also needs a long tube to reach them.

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It is like us using a straw to drink from the bottom of a tall bottle.

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And here is an insect that can reach this plant's pollen, a hoverfly.

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Thanks to its long tube or proboscis, it can reach right into the depths of the flower.

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And it can hover in the air like a helicopter.

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Special signs are used to enable a helicopter to make a safe landing.

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Do you wonder if the hoverfly has anything similar?

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Let us have a closer look now at the white arrows on the surface of the flower.

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They are all pointing to a single spot and showing the hoverfly which way to go.

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The hoverfly is thus able to make a successful landing at exactly the right spot.

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Let us now think about what we have just seen.

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The flower is an unconscious part of an unconscious plant.

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It has no eyes, ears, hands or brain to think with.

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Yet, it has signs on it telling the insect which way to go.

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The flower itself is even unaware of these.

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As for the insect, it has no consciousness or intelligence either.

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Yet, it possesses all the special features it needs to reach the pollen.

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It is Almighty God who creates the flower and the insect to be compatible with one another.

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God knows what characteristics every living thing needs and gives them the most appropriate ones.

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God reveals this in our holy book, the Quran.

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Everyone in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him.

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All are submissive to Him.

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The flowers that give off perfumes.

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Some plants use a quite interesting technique to attract insects.

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They offer them perfume.

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This orchid that lives in South America produces a special perfume in its leaves.

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The customers for this scent are male bees.

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Human beings use perfumes to smell nice too.

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Ooh, that smells so good!

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Bees want to smell nice, just like humans do.

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When a bee arrives to take perfume from the orchid,

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the flower also gives the visitor its pollens.

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How?

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Let's have a look and see.

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The entrance to where the perfume is, is very slippery.

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The bee loses its footing when it gets here and slips.

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Whoops!

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As it struggles to free itself, it makes contact with the yellow pollen.

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And the pollen sticks to its body.

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Seeds emerge shortly after the pollens reach the female cells.

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The seed will allow the plant to have offspring of its own.

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Every seed is an example of the creative artistry of God.

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Almighty God, the creator of all things, reveals this in the Qur'an about the creation of the seed.

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Have you thought about what you cultivate?

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Is it you who make it germinate, or are we the germinator?

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If we wished, we could have made it broken stubble.

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Flying seeds.

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These seeds you are looking at now spread by flying through the air.

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There are some hundred seeds under every white puff.

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These seeds have a special system enabling them to fly.

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Look how pretty they are flying about, just as if they had parachutes.

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This parachute is so effective that seeds can float in even the very slightest breeze.

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Each of these tiny helicopters you are watching carries one seed.

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The size of the seed is just right for the length and shape of the wing.

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This system, too, works just like a parachute.

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It is intelligent, educated human beings who design parachutes.

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However, parachutes so much more efficient than those made by human beings are used by plants.

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And they are all just plants.

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They have no intelligence or consciousness.

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But thanks to God's matchless creation, they have perfect parachutes for their seeds.

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This team is discovered that birds are building in Rechtamentee knowledge,

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in игра time.

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Two drops, two drops, two drops, three drops, two drops, three drops in a Zent-Ao-Rand,

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They need the sun to go near the whole дев環iod.

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Thezejillions of nativeandra Pod and the Star Secret Pages

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Winged Seeds

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come on let's go to the Amazon rainforest oh it's really hot here and there is no

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breeze it must be really hard for seeds to fly here yes it is very difficult for seeds to fly

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in such hot and windless air that is why the trees here use perfect wings to send their

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seeds off to other places the trees seed is right beneath the wings you are looking at

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these wings can carry seeds for long distances on even a light breeze

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thus the seed travels a long way from the tree it originally belonged to

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plants that use helicopters

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some trees use helicopters to get their seeds to fly look look thanks to those wings the seeds are

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floating through the air if this blade were a bit smaller the seed would fall to the ground

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but in fact it is just the right size and the weight of the seed is just right for the blade to carry

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some helicopters have more blades and the system used is exactly the same as that used by human beings

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the American aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky developed the first helicopter inspired by

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these seeds and their flight system thanks to the blades the seed travels long distances this means that

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the tree is able to have its own offspring it is a miracle how a tree with no mind or consciousness

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consisting of a wooden trunk and leaves can make such perfect wings

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could such features come about by chance it is the height of insanity to claim that such perfect features could come about as the result of chance

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there is no doubt that God created these trees their seeds and the aircraft to carry them

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in one verse of the Quran God tells us

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your deity is God alone there is no deity but him he encompasses all things in his knowledge

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plants that fire off their seeds

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some plants use really fascinating ways of dispersing their seeds

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some fire them off into the air this is a squirting cucumber thanks to a special system created by God

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the seeds are kept under high pressure and when the time comes boom

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this is the Himalayan balsam this system functions so perfectly that the slightest touch triggers the firing system

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the force applied is quite strong and this means that the plant is able to fire its seeds up to five meters or some sixteen feet

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the plant is able to fire its seeds up to five meters or some sixteen feet

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plants that use vessels

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some plants use water to disperse their seeds not just the air so their seeds are able to travel in water

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this plant is the sea bean

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its seeds are some of the best able to travel in water

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friends traveling in the water is no easy matter

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each seed has its own special packaging

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this means they can separate from one another and travel in different directions

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the seed you are now watching is about to embark on a long journey

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look the river current is carrying it towards the sea

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it will reach the sea after a journey of many kilometers

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its casing acts as both a raft and a protective covering

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this journey that will continue in the ocean may last for months or even years

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and the seed will stay alive despite the difficult conditions in the ocean

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if the sheath is damaged its hard shell will continue to protect it

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eventually it reaches dry land where it will settle and continue with its life

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a new sea bean tree will begin putting down roots

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thousands of kilometers away from the parent tree

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plants that make friends with ants

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plants

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do you know what the hardest working insects in the world are

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ants of course

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ants are the most diligent and hardest working insects of all

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plants sometimes take advantage of ants industriousness

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and use them to carry their seeds

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in return they give the ants a special reward

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their seeds have a fleshy covering which provide food for ants

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if the seeds are left out in the open

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then birds or other creatures will eat them

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so they need to go underground as soon as possible if they are to survive and grow

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the ants are at work

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ants are carrying the seeds underground into their nest

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they eat the nutritious food around the seeds but don't touch the seeds themselves

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they eat the nutritious food around the seeds but don't touch the seeds themselves

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so the seed makes its home underground where it can grow in safety

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fruit trees use a similar technique

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they use human beings and animals to carry their seeds

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when the seed ripens the fleshy pulp around it changes color becoming sweet and delicious

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it literally invites human beings and animals to break it off

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birds cannot resist these fruits and eat plenty of them

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let's think again now

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plants use soil water and the sun to produce delicious fruits for us

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they make healthy foods as if they knew what human beings and animals need

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what is more they produce these fruits in such a way that this enables dispersion of their seeds

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they have no powers of thought or reason

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yet they produce really delicious and nutritious foods for us and animals

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it is almighty god who created us and all other things

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who also enables trees to make fruits in this way

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god calls on us in a verse from the quran

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it is he who sends down water from the sky

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from which we bring forth growth of every kind

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and from that we bring forth the green shoots

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and from them we bring forth the green shoots

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and from them we bring forth close packed seeds

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and from the spades of the date palm date clusters hanging down

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and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates both similar and dissimilar

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look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen

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there are signs in that for people who believe

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their gods benefit from coming forward

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they'll find gladries they win

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as not possible

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for the blemest focus

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and beyond all the stars

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and to the next stage

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and to the next stage

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that this happened

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is not something that could live

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と思います

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In this film we have been looking at seeds and pollens, which are a miracle that most

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people are not even aware of.

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Flowers that guide insects, insects that have been specially created for these flowers,

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orchids that provide bees with perfume, seeds that use parachutes just like engineers,

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and seeds able to withstand journeys in water lasting thousands of kilometers.

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We have seen some of the interesting techniques that plants use to make other creatures carry

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their seeds for them.

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We have seen that these systems in plants are too perfect to have come into existence

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by chance.

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It is Almighty God, the All-Knowing, who regulates all of this.

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It is He who knows the creation and needs of plants and places other means at their service.

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God calls to us on this subject.

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God is He who splits the seed and kernel.

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He brings forth the living from the dead and produces the dead out of the living.

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God is God.

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God is God.

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God is the Holy Spirit.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.