 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?
If you tried to number God's blessings, you could never count them.
God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl, 3-18)
Obviously the variety of life is a very considerable subject to be dealt with in a single volume. This book describes the general outlines of that variety and what it provides us with. It recalls some of the blessings too many to be listed, even in general terms. In addition, it sets out some of the verses about living things, and indications of the existence and attributes of God, as described in Qur'an:
And in your creation and all the creatures He has spread about there are Signs for people with certainty. (Surat al-Jathiyya, 4)
One aim of this book is to show how irrational and unscientific are evolutionist claims concerning the richness of life, and to invalidate such Darwinist concepts as speciation and macro-evolution. Separate chapters are devoted to the Galapagos finches and industrial melanism, which evolutionists portrayed as fundamental proofs at every opportunity. Scientific facts describe how these tales constitute no evidence of evolution at all.
1 C. Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, New York: Penguin Books, 1988, p. 326.