WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:29.980 Transcription by CastingWords 00:30.000 --> 00:59.980 CastingWords 01:00.000 --> 01:29.980 CastingWords 01:29.980 --> 01:33.980 CastingWords 01:33.980 --> 01:37.980 Where? To the world of plants. Come on! 01:37.980 --> 01:51.980 How lovely it is here! 01:51.980 --> 02:07.980 There must be millions of plants here. Brightly colored, spotlessly clean flowers. 02:07.980 --> 02:23.980 All kinds of fruits. 02:23.980 --> 02:33.980 Vegetables. 02:33.980 --> 02:43.980 Trees. How beautiful they all are. 02:43.980 --> 02:47.980 Let us now have a closer look at the members of this world. 02:47.980 --> 03:01.980 Let us learn how they reproduce and see what techniques they use. 03:01.980 --> 03:05.980 You all know that even giant trees grow from a tiny little seed. 03:05.980 --> 03:09.980 But do you know where these tiny seeds come from? 03:09.980 --> 03:27.980 I was once just a tiny seed too. 03:27.980 --> 03:39.980 I am really curious to learn just how I came into being. 03:39.980 --> 03:51.980 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. 03:51.980 --> 03:53.980 But how do they manage that? 03:53.980 --> 03:55.980 But how do they manage that? 03:55.980 --> 03:59.980 Plants can't move? 03:59.980 --> 04:03.980 You are right, plants cannot move. 04:03.980 --> 04:17.980 But God has created various ways by which pollen from one plant can reach another. 04:17.980 --> 04:21.980 A lot of pollen is carried by the wind. 04:21.980 --> 04:29.980 Some people don't like this because these tiny grains cause a lot of people to suffer allergic reactions in the spring. 04:29.980 --> 04:35.980 A-choo! 04:35.980 --> 04:41.980 I get this every spring. 04:41.980 --> 04:49.980 A grain of pollen starts turning into a seed when it reaches that part of another plant containing the egg cell. 04:49.980 --> 04:55.980 Some plants use special carriers to send their pollen to other plants. 04:55.980 --> 05:09.980 The most common of these are insects. 05:09.980 --> 05:15.980 Flowers produce food that insects like and attract them with their bright colors and perfumes. 05:15.980 --> 05:19.980 That means they are able to pass on their pollens to them. 05:19.980 --> 05:23.980 They then carry those pollens to other plants. 05:23.980 --> 05:41.980 The harmony between these different life forms becomes clearer when we have a close look at the relationship between flowers and insects. 05:41.980 --> 05:47.980 Here is one example. 05:47.980 --> 05:53.980 This flower which grows in southern Africa is known as the iris. 05:53.980 --> 05:59.980 It is very difficult for carrier insects to reach the food and pollens made by this attractive flower. 05:59.980 --> 06:03.980 But look, there is a long tube under its leaves. 06:03.980 --> 06:07.980 The food and pollens are all at the bottom of this tube. 06:07.980 --> 06:15.980 The insect that will carry the pollens also needs a long tube to reach them. 06:15.980 --> 06:21.980 It is like us using a straw to drink from the bottom of a tall bottle. 06:21.980 --> 06:39.980 And here is an insect that can reach this plant's pollen, a hoverfly. 06:39.980 --> 06:49.980 Thanks to its long tube or proboscis, it can reach right into the depths of the flower. 06:49.980 --> 06:59.980 And it can hover in the air like a helicopter. 06:59.980 --> 07:08.980 Special signs are used to enable a helicopter to make a safe landing. 07:08.980 --> 07:12.980 Do you wonder if the hoverfly has anything similar? 07:12.980 --> 07:18.980 Let us have a closer look now at the white arrows on the surface of the flower. 07:18.980 --> 07:24.980 They are all pointing to a single spot and showing the hoverfly which way to go. 07:24.980 --> 07:33.980 The hoverfly is thus able to make a successful landing at exactly the right spot. 07:33.980 --> 07:40.980 Let us now think about what we have just seen. 07:40.980 --> 07:44.980 The flower is an unconscious part of an unconscious plant. 07:44.980 --> 07:48.980 It has no eyes, ears, hands or brain to think with. 07:48.980 --> 07:54.980 Yet, it has signs on it telling the insect which way to go. 07:54.980 --> 08:01.980 The flower itself is even unaware of these. 08:01.980 --> 08:07.980 As for the insect, it has no consciousness or intelligence either. 08:07.980 --> 08:13.980 Yet, it possesses all the special features it needs to reach the pollen. 08:13.980 --> 08:20.980 It is Almighty God who creates the flower and the insect to be compatible with one another. 08:20.980 --> 08:28.980 God knows what characteristics every living thing needs and gives them the most appropriate ones. 08:28.980 --> 08:35.980 God reveals this in our holy book, the Quran. 08:35.980 --> 08:38.980 Everyone in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him. 08:38.980 --> 08:41.980 All are submissive to Him. 08:58.980 --> 09:13.980 The flowers that give off perfumes. 09:13.980 --> 09:18.980 Some plants use a quite interesting technique to attract insects. 09:18.980 --> 09:21.980 They offer them perfume. 09:21.980 --> 09:27.980 This orchid that lives in South America produces a special perfume in its leaves. 09:27.980 --> 09:32.980 The customers for this scent are male bees. 09:32.980 --> 09:37.980 Human beings use perfumes to smell nice too. 09:37.980 --> 09:44.980 Ooh, that smells so good! 09:44.980 --> 09:48.980 Bees want to smell nice, just like humans do. 09:48.980 --> 09:51.980 When a bee arrives to take perfume from the orchid, 09:51.980 --> 09:56.980 the flower also gives the visitor its pollens. 09:56.980 --> 09:57.980 How? 09:57.980 --> 10:02.980 Let's have a look and see. 10:02.980 --> 10:06.980 The entrance to where the perfume is, is very slippery. 10:06.980 --> 10:11.980 The bee loses its footing when it gets here and slips. 10:11.980 --> 10:12.980 Whoops! 10:12.980 --> 10:23.980 As it struggles to free itself, it makes contact with the yellow pollen. 10:23.980 --> 10:28.980 And the pollen sticks to its body. 10:28.980 --> 10:32.980 Seeds emerge shortly after the pollens reach the female cells. 10:32.980 --> 10:39.980 The seed will allow the plant to have offspring of its own. 10:39.980 --> 10:45.980 Every seed is an example of the creative artistry of God. 10:45.980 --> 10:58.980 Almighty God, the creator of all things, reveals this in the Qur'an about the creation of the seed. 10:58.980 --> 11:02.980 Have you thought about what you cultivate? 11:02.980 --> 11:07.980 Is it you who make it germinate, or are we the germinator? 11:07.980 --> 11:34.980 If we wished, we could have made it broken stubble. 11:34.980 --> 11:42.980 Flying seeds. 11:42.980 --> 11:51.980 These seeds you are looking at now spread by flying through the air. 11:51.980 --> 12:01.980 There are some hundred seeds under every white puff. 12:01.980 --> 12:10.980 These seeds have a special system enabling them to fly. 12:10.980 --> 12:18.980 Look how pretty they are flying about, just as if they had parachutes. 12:18.980 --> 12:24.980 This parachute is so effective that seeds can float in even the very slightest breeze. 12:24.980 --> 12:30.980 Each of these tiny helicopters you are watching carries one seed. 12:30.980 --> 12:37.980 The size of the seed is just right for the length and shape of the wing. 12:37.980 --> 12:49.980 This system, too, works just like a parachute. 12:49.980 --> 12:55.980 It is intelligent, educated human beings who design parachutes. 12:55.980 --> 13:03.980 However, parachutes so much more efficient than those made by human beings are used by plants. 13:03.980 --> 13:09.980 And they are all just plants. 13:09.980 --> 13:13.980 They have no intelligence or consciousness. 13:13.980 --> 13:19.980 But thanks to God's matchless creation, they have perfect parachutes for their seeds. 13:19.980 --> 13:30.980 This team is discovered that birds are building in Rechtamentee knowledge, 13:30.980 --> 13:31.980 in игра time. 13:31.980 --> 13:35.980 Two drops, two drops, two drops, three drops, two drops, three drops in a Zent-Ao-Rand, 13:35.980 --> 13:37.980 They need the sun to go near the whole дев環iod. 13:37.980 --> 13:41.980 Thezejillions of nativeandra Pod and the Star Secret Pages 13:41.980 --> 13:43.980 Winged Seeds 13:43.980 --> 13:54.960 come on let's go to the Amazon rainforest oh it's really hot here and there is no 13:54.960 --> 14:04.500 breeze it must be really hard for seeds to fly here yes it is very difficult for seeds to fly 14:04.500 --> 14:11.300 in such hot and windless air that is why the trees here use perfect wings to send their 14:11.300 --> 14:37.220 seeds off to other places the trees seed is right beneath the wings you are looking at 14:37.220 --> 14:43.760 these wings can carry seeds for long distances on even a light breeze 14:43.760 --> 14:53.120 thus the seed travels a long way from the tree it originally belonged to 15:07.220 --> 15:36.320 plants that use helicopters 15:36.320 --> 15:47.180 some trees use helicopters to get their seeds to fly look look thanks to those wings the seeds are 15:47.180 --> 15:53.420 floating through the air if this blade were a bit smaller the seed would fall to the ground 15:53.420 --> 16:00.860 but in fact it is just the right size and the weight of the seed is just right for the blade to carry 16:00.860 --> 16:11.720 some helicopters have more blades and the system used is exactly the same as that used by human beings 16:11.720 --> 16:19.340 the American aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky developed the first helicopter inspired by 16:19.340 --> 16:35.960 these seeds and their flight system thanks to the blades the seed travels long distances this means that 16:35.960 --> 16:43.520 the tree is able to have its own offspring it is a miracle how a tree with no mind or consciousness 16:43.520 --> 16:48.380 consisting of a wooden trunk and leaves can make such perfect wings 16:48.380 --> 17:03.380 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 17:03.380 --> 17:12.740 there is no doubt that God created these trees their seeds and the aircraft to carry them 17:12.740 --> 17:20.240 in one verse of the Quran God tells us 17:20.240 --> 17:32.600 your deity is God alone there is no deity but him he encompasses all things in his knowledge 17:32.600 --> 17:58.340 plants that fire off their seeds 17:58.340 --> 18:09.580 some plants use really fascinating ways of dispersing their seeds 18:09.580 --> 18:22.340 some fire them off into the air this is a squirting cucumber thanks to a special system created by God 18:22.340 --> 18:36.340 the seeds are kept under high pressure and when the time comes boom 18:36.340 --> 18:45.340 this is the Himalayan balsam this system functions so perfectly that the slightest touch triggers the firing system 18:45.340 --> 19:04.340 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 19:04.340 --> 19:11.340 the plant is able to fire its seeds up to five meters or some sixteen feet 19:29.340 --> 19:31.340 plants that use vessels 19:31.340 --> 19:52.340 some plants use water to disperse their seeds not just the air so their seeds are able to travel in water 19:52.340 --> 19:58.340 this plant is the sea bean 19:58.340 --> 20:02.340 its seeds are some of the best able to travel in water 20:02.340 --> 20:05.340 friends traveling in the water is no easy matter 20:05.340 --> 20:10.340 each seed has its own special packaging 20:10.340 --> 20:17.340 this means they can separate from one another and travel in different directions 20:17.340 --> 20:23.340 the seed you are now watching is about to embark on a long journey 20:23.340 --> 20:30.340 look the river current is carrying it towards the sea 20:30.340 --> 20:38.340 it will reach the sea after a journey of many kilometers 20:38.340 --> 20:44.340 its casing acts as both a raft and a protective covering 20:44.340 --> 20:59.340 this journey that will continue in the ocean may last for months or even years 20:59.340 --> 21:05.340 and the seed will stay alive despite the difficult conditions in the ocean 21:05.340 --> 21:20.340 if the sheath is damaged its hard shell will continue to protect it 21:20.340 --> 21:26.340 eventually it reaches dry land where it will settle and continue with its life 21:26.340 --> 21:32.340 a new sea bean tree will begin putting down roots 21:32.340 --> 21:35.340 thousands of kilometers away from the parent tree 21:35.340 --> 21:56.340 plants that make friends with ants 21:56.340 --> 22:02.340 plants 22:02.340 --> 22:06.340 do you know what the hardest working insects in the world are 22:06.340 --> 22:11.340 ants of course 22:11.340 --> 22:17.340 ants are the most diligent and hardest working insects of all 22:17.340 --> 22:23.340 plants sometimes take advantage of ants industriousness 22:23.340 --> 22:26.340 and use them to carry their seeds 22:26.340 --> 22:31.340 in return they give the ants a special reward 22:31.340 --> 22:36.340 their seeds have a fleshy covering which provide food for ants 22:36.340 --> 22:41.340 if the seeds are left out in the open 22:41.340 --> 22:44.340 then birds or other creatures will eat them 22:44.340 --> 22:52.340 so they need to go underground as soon as possible if they are to survive and grow 22:52.340 --> 22:59.340 the ants are at work 22:59.340 --> 23:07.340 ants are carrying the seeds underground into their nest 23:07.340 --> 23:13.340 they eat the nutritious food around the seeds but don't touch the seeds themselves 23:13.340 --> 23:26.340 they eat the nutritious food around the seeds but don't touch the seeds themselves 23:26.340 --> 23:32.340 so the seed makes its home underground where it can grow in safety 23:32.340 --> 23:45.340 fruit trees use a similar technique 23:45.340 --> 23:49.340 they use human beings and animals to carry their seeds 23:49.340 --> 24:04.340 when the seed ripens the fleshy pulp around it changes color becoming sweet and delicious 24:04.340 --> 24:19.340 it literally invites human beings and animals to break it off 24:19.340 --> 24:31.340 birds cannot resist these fruits and eat plenty of them 24:31.340 --> 24:46.340 let's think again now 24:46.340 --> 24:50.340 plants use soil water and the sun to produce delicious fruits for us 24:50.340 --> 25:05.340 they make healthy foods as if they knew what human beings and animals need 25:05.340 --> 25:11.340 what is more they produce these fruits in such a way that this enables dispersion of their seeds 25:11.340 --> 25:14.340 they have no powers of thought or reason 25:14.340 --> 25:28.340 yet they produce really delicious and nutritious foods for us and animals 25:28.340 --> 25:35.340 it is almighty god who created us and all other things 25:35.340 --> 25:54.340 who also enables trees to make fruits in this way 25:54.340 --> 25:57.340 god calls on us in a verse from the quran 25:57.340 --> 26:01.340 it is he who sends down water from the sky 26:01.340 --> 26:06.340 from which we bring forth growth of every kind 26:06.340 --> 26:09.340 and from that we bring forth the green shoots 26:09.340 --> 26:12.340 and from them we bring forth the green shoots 26:12.340 --> 26:25.340 and from them we bring forth close packed seeds 26:25.340 --> 26:30.340 and from the spades of the date palm date clusters hanging down 26:30.340 --> 26:35.340 and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates both similar and dissimilar 26:35.340 --> 26:40.340 look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen 26:40.340 --> 26:44.340 there are signs in that for people who believe 27:05.340 --> 27:08.340 their gods benefit from coming forward 27:08.340 --> 27:14.340 they'll find gladries they win 27:14.340 --> 27:15.340 as not possible 27:15.340 --> 27:17.340 for the blemest focus 27:17.340 --> 27:20.340 and beyond all the stars 27:20.340 --> 27:22.340 and to the next stage 27:22.340 --> 27:24.340 and to the next stage 27:24.340 --> 27:27.340 that this happened 27:27.340 --> 27:31.340 is not something that could live 27:31.340 --> 27:32.340 と思います 27:32.340 --> 27:41.220 In this film we have been looking at seeds and pollens, which are a miracle that most 27:41.220 --> 27:52.920 people are not even aware of. 27:52.920 --> 27:59.100 Flowers that guide insects, insects that have been specially created for these flowers, 27:59.100 --> 28:06.560 orchids that provide bees with perfume, seeds that use parachutes just like engineers, 28:06.560 --> 28:12.180 and seeds able to withstand journeys in water lasting thousands of kilometers. 28:12.180 --> 28:17.020 We have seen some of the interesting techniques that plants use to make other creatures carry 28:17.020 --> 28:18.980 their seeds for them. 28:18.980 --> 28:24.100 We have seen that these systems in plants are too perfect to have come into existence 28:24.100 --> 28:26.820 by chance. 28:26.820 --> 28:32.980 It is Almighty God, the All-Knowing, who regulates all of this. 28:32.980 --> 28:41.260 It is He who knows the creation and needs of plants and places other means at their service. 28:41.260 --> 28:46.500 God calls to us on this subject. 28:46.500 --> 28:50.500 God is He who splits the seed and kernel. 28:50.500 --> 28:56.660 He brings forth the living from the dead and produces the dead out of the living. 28:56.660 --> 29:04.820 God is God. 29:04.820 --> 29:14.820 God is God. 29:14.820 --> 29:18.940 God is the Holy Spirit. 29:18.940 --> 29:30.760 Okay. 29:30.760 --> 30:00.740 Thank you. 30:00.760 --> 30:30.740 Thank you.