From training boxers to smart seeds
From training boxers to smart seeds
A coordination exercise familiar to many martial arts fans is one of the most difficult in such sports. There are different types of it but the essence is the same for all of them: you concentrate your gaze on a finger pointing up to the ceiling, or, conversely, to the floor and spin around your axis as quickly as possible.
Then, after the coach’s whistle, ‘shadow boxing’ begins – a fight with an imaginary opponent, during which almost all your efforts are spent on coping with the onset of dizziness.
The ground slips out from under your feet, it seems that you are about to collapse, and you still have to continue boxing. All this is necessary so that a fighter in a real fight, having missed a powerful blow to the head, can continue the fight, staying on his feet and not losing his orientation in space.
However, even if the strongest athlete is plunged into absolute darkness, stunned by complete silence and then forced to navigate in space, it will be very difficult task for him.
What can we say about ordinary seeds? It does not matter what kind of plants they are from. They do not have a brain, eyes, ears or language. They did not go to school, did not graduate from college and do not know how to use a compass.
But as soon as you plant them in the ground, they immediately determine where is up and where is down, where their roots should move, and where their shoots should grow.
This is an amazing act. It does not matter at all how the seed is planted: with the root-forming part down or, conversely, up. One way or another, the roots will still grow down, and the stem will grow up.
Scientists are trying to explain this phenomenon by the fact that seeds can navigate by the influence of gravity, determine where gravity pulls them, and grow their roots in this direction. Even if we assume that such an advanced system is installed in every seed, the question remains open: who installed it? Is it automatically installed in every seed on earth?
Almighty Allah Himself asks in the Holy Koran, addressing people (meaning), “Have you seen what you sow (tell us about the seeds you sow)? Do you make it grow or do We make it grow?” (Sura Al-Hadid, ayah 63-64).
In fact, seeds are designed in such a way that everything necessary for the further growth of the plant is already put into them; you just need to plant it in the ground and let it grow. Did a person put all this into it? Of course not, a person only uses the benefits that the Almighty Himself put into the seeds.
