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We are going back 150 million years and we are looking at a fossil from a rare coral reef from the bottom of the ocean.

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This is a fossil that was discovered in what is today the country of Germany.

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I am now holding the petrified form of a coral that was living 150 million years in the past.

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Let me turn it around a bit so all its details can be seen.

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Corals form in a very small part of the ocean's surface, but because of the biological activities they possess,

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they live alongside other living groups in the ocean.

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Populations form together with them.

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Because of these characteristics and the way that corals color the seabed,

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they are today the subject of much research and many documentaries

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because Allah creates them so brightly colored, mashallah, and in highly attractive shapes.

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Coral reefs are well known, but that is not a feature of this coral itself.

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A rock mass forms as the result of minerals accumulating on its surface

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and its own biological activity.

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It then combines with other corals, and since they all possess the same features,

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the result is a mass of coral.

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That is why these masses of corals are known as reefs.

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This fossil, which possesses the same feature, is 150 million years old.

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We can compare it with present-day corals.

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It is identical, even in the way it carries minerals and looks like a rock.

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We know that oxygen is found in dissolved form at the sea bottom in order to give rise to life forms,

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and that the same thing applied millions of years ago.

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The fact that a life form existing today also existed 150 million years ago

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shows us that the life form has never changed, has never evolved,

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and has never turned into any other living species.

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No other species has ever turned into this coral,

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nor has this coral become, let us say, a jellyfish,

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because this life form was living in the same way, in the same environment,

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millions and hundreds of millions of years ago,

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which means it had the same biological activity as its descendants do today.

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Indeed, present-day research and scientific reports show that when a gene from an organism

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that existed 500 or 600 million years ago is transplanted into that life form still living today,

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the same protein is again synthesized.

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In other words, in molecular terms, and I am setting this out for the sake of clarity,

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we can see that the factory, as it were, has never changed.

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When we give it the same blueprint, the same living body, in other words,

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it will manufacture the same product as the factory made 500 to 600 million years ago.

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To come back to this fossil, it is identical to its counterparts living today in the same habitat.

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I have just described yet another proof of Allah's immaculate creation.