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A call to reason

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Throughout the course of this film you have been watching, we have been considering some of the

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extraordinary features of leaves and have briefly touched on the subject of photosynthesis.

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The aim in providing this information was to show that plants and the flawless systems

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they possess could not have come into being by chance.

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Plants are entities with no hands, eyes or brains.

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Plants lack such features of consciousness and reason as decision making, the use of

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free will and lack the possession of knowledge.

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Yet as we have seen in what we have described so far, the characteristics of plants and the

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function they perform require enormous intelligence and consciousness.

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Indeed, plants all over the world successfully carry out processes in as little as a billionth

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of a second, whereas rational, conscious and knowledgeable human beings with advanced technology

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cannot replicate nor even understand such a process.

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Of course, plants have been behaving under the inspiration of Omniscient God, our Creator,

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ever since they were first created.

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Every plant cell and even every atom is told what to do moment by moment.

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This fact is made clear in a verse from the Quran.

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It is God who created the seven heavens, and of the earth the same number, the command descending

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down through all of them, so that you might know that God has power over all things, and

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that God encompasses all things in His knowledge.