Millions of years ago, just as is the case today, there lived millions of different species. Over hundreds of millions of years, the Earth has been teeming with living things, from trilobites-with their complex eye structures, which adorned the sea bed 550 million years ago-to starfish, from present-day fish to sweet-smelling flowers, lions, rabbits, brightly colored birds, horses, squirrels, dolphins, butterflies and dragonflies, from sparrows to lambs, from ants to human beings. Some of these became extinct, and others survived down to our present day.

As you have seen throughout this book, all these creatures appeared suddenly on Earth and underwent no subsequent changes. As can be seen from the fossils that constitute our source of information on the living things which have existed throughout history, living things possessing fully formed features have always lived on Earth. Their feet, hands, wings, skins, feathers, lungs, skulls, backbones, and skeletons are all complete, unique and in the ideal form. No half-formed organ or limb in a transitional stage is ever found in any fossil.

Even before that, another miracle took place. There being no life on Earth it suddenly became filled with a living community of the very greatest variety. Life came suddenly to a planet consisting of stone, earth and water.

All these things reveal two very important truths: The theory of evolution, which maintains that living things are descended from a common ancestor by means of random changes, is not true. The history of life definitively and clearly refutes the theory of evolution. The second fact is that there is a Mighty Creator, possessed of a matchless creative artistry, an incomparable Intelligence, infinite Knowledge, and a Power which makes life suited to the Earth and Who creates very different living things from nothing.

That Creator is Almighty God, Lord of the Worlds, Who has sent messengers and prophets to mankind throughout history, and called people to the truth with the Torah, the Psalms, the Bible and finally the Qur'an.

No matter how much materialists strive to do so, they cannot conceal the fact that God created all living things. God is the Creator of the universe, the stars, the galaxies, the seas, rivers, all living things, human beings, and, no matter how much they deny it, materialists.

Some of the verses of the Qur'an that refer to God's art of creation read as follows:

He created man from a drop of sperm and yet he is an open challenger! And He created livestock. There is warmth for you in them, and various uses and some you eat.

And there is beauty in them [livestock] for you in the evening when you bring them home and in the morning when you drive them out to graze.

They carry your loads to lands you would never reach except with great difficulty. Your Lord is All-Gentle, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl; 4-7)

It is He Who sends down water from the sky. From it you drink and from it come the shrubs among which you graze your herds.

And by it He makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and grapes and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect.

He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly Signs in that for people who use their intellect.

And also the things of varying colors He has created for you in the Earth. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who pay heed.

It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat fresh flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And you see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His bounty, and so that hopefully you will show thanks.

He cast firmly embedded mountains on the earth so it would not move under you, and rivers and pathways so that hopefully you would be guided and landmarks. And they are guided by the stars.

Is He Who creates like him who does not create? So will you not pay heed? (Surat an-Nahl; 10-17)