(part 1 of 2): Self-Sacrifice in Animals
Living things need to reproduce in order to preserve their species. However, reproduction often proves itself to be insufficient, if the living organisms fail to care enough for their offspring, the newborn cannot survive. In other words, if the creatures did not feel the need to protect and look after their offspring and were unsuccessful, the newborn creatures would not be able to care for themselves and would soon die.
If we look at nature, we will see that the majority of living things show amazing self-sacrifice to protect their young and to give them the best care. Sometimes in a selfless way that is incomparable with the way the victim does it. In addition, these creatures even risk their lives for their offspring without hesitating for a moment. So how did this self-sacrifice develop in animals?
Evolutionists claim that the self-sacrifice that living beings show, especially those that they show to their offspring, is an instinctive behavior. What does instinct mean?
Evolutionists define instinct as a sense of intuition that is inherent in living things. They claim that an inner voice of a spider, bird, lion, or tiny insect whispers to sacrifice itself so that the generations can continue to exist. When asked which source this voice comes from, they boldly answer: „Mother Nature“. From the evolutionists‘ point of view, every natural phenomenon is a miracle of nature.
However, it is obvious that this claim is useless and meaningless, because nature itself is already a created entity consisting of stones, flowers, trees, rivers and mountains, as we all know. It is obvious that these units cannot come together to give a living being a new train that is a product of intelligence.
Even Darwin himself was aware of this logical mistake from the start. In his book The Origin of Species, which he wrote in 1859, he expressed his doubts about his own theory in the following words:
“I thought it would be more appropriate to treat the topic separately, especially because something as wonderful as the instinct of a beehive that builds its cells would have seemed to many readers as a difficulty that would be enough to upset my whole throry. ” (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 233)
Research on living things led by scientists has shown that they live together in an amazing harmony, coordination and collaboration. Wherever you turn in nature, you can see examples of this. For example, some small birds give a high-pitched alarm when they see a bird of prey like a hawk or an eagle approaching their flock to warn their companions of the danger. By doing so, they draw the attacker’s attention to themselves. This behavior significantly reduces the chance of survival for the bird that raised the alarm. But still the bird is risking its life to protect hundreds of other birds in the flock.
The majority of animals do all kinds of self-sacrifice for their young. For example, the breeding season of the penguins in the polar winter. Female penguins only lay one egg, leave the brooding to the males and return to the sea. During the four months of breeding, the male penguin has to survive violent storms, which sometimes reach speeds of 120 km / h. In the four months in which the male penguin makes great sacrifices and does not leave the egg, he loses half his body weight due to lack of food. At the end of the four months, the female penguin shows up with a large food supply. In the meantime, she has not lost any time, but has worked for her cub and provided for food. She empties her stomach and does the job of looking after the boy.
(part 2 of 2): An Islamic View
The care that the crocodile, a particularly wild animal, has for its offspring is also quite astonishing. First the crocodile digs a hole for the brood of its eggs. The temperature of the hole must never exceed 30ºC. A slight increase in the temperature would threaten the life of the offspring in the eggs. The crocodile ensures that the holes in which it lays its eggs are in fairly shady areas and does additional work to keep the eggs at a constant temperature. Some crocodile breeds build nests from stems on cold water. If, despite the measures, the temperature of the nest still rises, it cools the crocodile by sprinkling it with urine.
The time when the little ones hatch is most important, if the crocodile fails to hear the sounds coming from the nest, the little ones will suffocate. The crocodile mother produces the eggs and helps her offspring out of the egg by using her teeth as tweezers. The crocodile with its razor-sharp teeth avoids the slightest movement with which it could injure its young. The safest place for the newborn is the safe pouch in the mother’s mouth, which is specially designed to protect half a dozen newborn crocodiles.
The conscientious care that a wild animal like the crocodile shows to its offspring is just one of the examples that prove the invalidity of evolutionists‘ claim to the struggle for survival, which includes that the strong survive and the others are defeated and disappear.
The dolphin is a different animal that is known for its self-sacrificing behavior. Dolphins raise their offspring with great care from the time they are born. Once the young dolphin is born, it has to come to the water surface to get oxygen. To provide him with this, the dolphin mother shows astonishingly conscious behavior and by using the tip of her nose, she pushes her offspring slightly upwards to the water surface.
Shortly before birth, the movements of the dolphin mother slow down considerably. For this reason, two other females always accompany the mother at birth. Always on one side of the mother, the assisting dolphins ensure the responsibility to protect her from possible shark attacks that could be attracted by the smell of the blood.
How can this instinct, defined by evolutionists, as „a drive observed in animals but not fully understood“ can make animals become civil engineers when they build their nests, perfect soldiers when they do defend their youngsters or their colonies and make even the most aggressive creatures mild and merciful to their youngsters?
In fact, Darwin also had trouble answering the question he had raised himself. He often left unanswered related questions. In his book: ‚The Origin of Species‘ he asks the following questions:
“Third: can instincts be won and changed through natural selection? What should we say about such a wonderful instinct that guides the bee to build cells that anticipated the discoveries of the best mathematicians? ”(Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p.205)
As you can see, Darwin’s doubts about „natural selection“ pretty precise. Although Darwin himself confesses that natural selection is not a reasonable explanation, the majority of evolutionists still insist on sticking to it.
Anyone who observes nature with a clear consciousness sees that living things are not brutal, crude or relentless because of the so-called struggle for survival. On the contrary, living beings are self-sacrificing because of the “inspiration” that their Creator gives them.
As described in the 68th verse of Chapter 16:
“And your Lord has given the bee …”
“God” the Lord of the heavens and the earth and of everything in between, the Infinitely Merciful and the Forgiving has the Control over all living things. Her instincts, which Darwin could not explain with evolution, are actually the inspiration that God has given to all living things.
All life in nature was created by God. All living beings come to existence through God’s will and behave in accordance with his inspiration. The self-sacrificing behavior, the kindness and care that living beings show to their young are only a reflection of the name of God, the „Merciful“. This was revealed in the 7th verse of Chapter 16:
„Your Lord is Kind, Merciful.“
The Prophet himself said:
„Verily, God has distributed a part of His grace to this world and with it a mother cares for her child and wild animals and birds care for each other.“ (Sahieh Muslim)
Source: https://www.islamland.com/deu/articles/instinkte-wissenschaft-und-religion