spun yarn or woven cloth without a craftsman or weaver. Anyone who takes cotton and waits for it to become spun yarn, then woven cloth, without a craftsman or weaver, has departed from reason and sunk into ignorance. Likewise, anyone who goes to a wilderness where he finds no palace built, then waits for the clay to turn into bricks and for those bricks to arrange themselves upon one another without a craftsman or builder, is ignorant. If the transformation of a drop of semen into a clinging clot, then a lump of flesh, then flesh, then bone and blood, is even more wondrous, then it should all the more clearly indicate a maker who made it—I mean the drop of semen—and moved it from one state to another.”

He said:

“Allah Most High has said:

‘Have you considered the semen you emit? Is it you who create it, or are We the Creator?’

Yet they were unable, on the strength of any proof, to