Re: God is Not Great
Coming back to the topic at hand … God is Great … And here is why …
Surah and Verse 22:73
O people, an example is presented, so listen to it. Indeed, those you invoke besides Allah will never create [as much as] a fly, even if they gathered together for that purpose. And if the fly should steal away from them a [tiny] thing, they could not recover it from him. Weak are the pursuer and pursued.
What a challenge ?!!!
The author of the Quran is saying:
“They cannot create a fly even if they all come together”
“If the fly takes something from them, they cannot recover what it took from them”
Look at this:
Once a housefly sniffs something interesting and tastes it with its feet and palps, the time has come to gobble up the delicious morsel.
If the meal in question happens to be liquid already, then the task is easy. Since the housefly’s mouth parts are designed to sponge and ingest liquefied food, it’s just a matter of turning on the suction. The food goes straight into the fly’s stomach.
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A housefly uses its proboscis to eat a piece of sugar.
Solid food is slightly more difficult. Houseflies can't bite or chew -- they simply don't have the proper equipment. So if forced to contend with something more solid, like a grain of sugar or dried [blood](http://health.howstuffworks.com/blood.htm), houseflies must employ a different tactic.
First, the housefly scrubs the dry food substance with the bristles on the end of its proboscis. This frees up food particles, if they're not already loose and crumbly.
The second step can be compared to what happens when you add hot water to instant oatmeal -- only instead of hot water, the housefly adds a mixture of saliva and digestive juices. The fly vomits saliva and digestive material onto its meal, and after a few seconds pass for the juices to break down the food, the fly sucks everything back up.
While this may sound rather bizarre to us, remember that the fly isn't adding anything to its food that we don't add to ours. The difference is, our teeth and jaws allow us to break down organic matter enough so it can mix with our stomach's [digestive](http://health.howstuffworks.com/digestive-system.htm) juices. The housefly is doing the same thing, just on the outside of its body.
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Mark of the FlyIf you've ever noticed fly specks on walls or surfaces, then you've observed the telltale signs of a housefly's recent meal. Those little dots are leftovers of its regurgitative eating habits.
If the vomit can’t adequately break down food enough for it to pass through a tube leading into the stomach, the fly sends this food down a different tube to an inner sack called the crop. The fly may pass the bubble of dissolving food multiple times between crop and mouth, regularly applying fresh saliva. Eventually, the liquefied meal will be ready to send down to the stomach.
If all this vomiting sounds unhygienic, that’s because it is. Not only do potentially deadly germs cling to the very legs a housefly might use to walk on (and taste) your sandwich, if it chooses to feed, it may wind up regurgitating portions of a previous meal as well. This only multiplies the risk of disease, which is why you should keep houseflies away from food.
HowStuffWorks “Housefly Diet”
This verse is a direct challenge to the scientists and to the people who believe the scientists (taking them as gods other than The Deity)
For well over 1400 years this verse has stood the test of time. Not only are we still unable to make a fly we cannot take back what it has taken from us … It uses digestive juices to chemically change the structure of it’s food before it eats it … so in my view this verse is asking us to reverse this reaction:
If there is acid involved the chances are there is gas produced, salts and water … gas escapes quickly, salts are very stable and so is water … recovering the raw ingredients of vomit and food will be impossible even in such small amounts as a fly meal.
God is Great
