Genes and Instinct: “He gave everything its form, then guided it”

How do we relate God’s words, “Your Lord inspired the bees: Make your homes in the mountains, in trees and in what people build” (An-Nahl 16:68), to “Who determined and guided” (Al-A’la 87:3), and to the words in Surah Ta-Ha: “He said: Our Lord is He who gave everything its form, then guided it” (20:50)? God determined all hereditary traits in genes, and every living organism lives according to its own program, which God placed within it. These beautiful characteristics have been placed by the Almighty in chromosomal threads composed of genes and carrying hereditary traits. Gene expression, a process in which information from a gene is used to create a functional genetic product. These products are usually proteins, but genes encoded as not proteins such as genes for transfer RNA or small nuclear RNA, in this case the product is functional RNA. flow of genetic information. Genes are expressed by being transcribed from DNA into RNA. This transcript may then be translated into protein. In genetics, gene expression is considered the most basic at which a genotype is elevated to a phenotype, i.e. a remarkable trait. The genetic code stored in DNA is "explained" by gene expression, and the characteristics of gene expression lead to the phenotype of the organism. Such phenotypes are usually expressed through the synthesis of proteins that control the shape of the organelle, or those that act as catalysts for specific metabolic pathways that characterize the organelle. In the same context, we understand God’s words: “He who gave everything its form, then guided it” (Ta-Ha 20:50). Everything in this universe operates according to a program. A living organism’s program is the entirety of its genes—its genome—which determines its characteristics and behavior in harmony with its environment. Hadith – Mishkat, Narrated Abu Sa’id May Allah be pleased with him "Animals can instinctively initiate childbirth, and they know how to cut the umbilical cord, and where and when to cut it off from the fetus. And the chicken can distinguish the rotten egg between the eggs that lie on it and discard it and throw it away, and it can distinguish the unfertilized egg from the fertilized egg. And it instinctively inspires the egg to stir every known number of hours. And the newborn chick knows where the weakest part of the egg is to tap it and come out. And the bees know how to build their hexagonal houses without a ruler and without a man. And the working bees returning from the field make an accurate topographic map of the place of flowers, and that by dancing and making signs of their belly movements indicate the rest of the work on the geography of the place accurately does not disappoint. And the most amazing of all is the instinctive medicine practiced by the animal "Wara" when the snake bites him, it resorted to a kind of desert grass called the Bedouin "Ram" and scratches his wound. It has been observed that this animal does not enter into a battle with the snake unless it is close to this grass, if it does not find this grass, it does not enter into a confrontation with the snake and flee .. And these are scientific facts that were only finally known, how did Wara realize these facts, and where did he learn them? That's direct inspiration and divine medicine, no doubt. And this is what God has revealed to the animal. “Your Lord inspired the bees: Make your homes in the mountains, in trees and in what people build.” — Source: Published on Dr. Mohamed Bourbab’s Facebook page on 23-01-2024 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0hFZ4BG1jDRRX7SjoFFmngHPMNEsRbtx7qd7oMB1ogwV8vZhVHGRbs2rTmfWRWbgzl&id=100064278721989