The underside of the egg of the Culex mosquito has a funnel-shaped hollow. The purpose of this hollow may not be obvious at first sight, but in further stages of the egg's development it emerges that it has a vital function. Thanks to the air filling the hollow it acts as a life buoy and keeps the eggs afloat.

However, the hollow can lead to serious problems for the egg. The hollow located under the egg, which can be termed a "life buoy," can easily be rendered useless if the egg "capsizes." For this reason a single egg laid on the water cannot float for long. If its balance is disturbed by the slightest rocking motion, it will overturn and the air-filled hollow will fill with water causing the egg to sink. However, in order to survive, the eggs have to stay above water. What would you do in this situation to stop the eggs sinking?

Mosquitoes solve this problem in an ingenious way by sticking the eggs together. The eggs are stuck side by side into a disc shape and form a natural floating raft. This disc, which is about 11 mm (0.43 inch) in diameter, can easily float on water. The hollows under the eggs and the spaces between the eggs serve as an air pillow to keep the disc afloat. If such a clever method were not employed, the eggs would sink and die. However, the danger is averted right from the start and security provided by this design detail.

So how is it that a mosquito can think about a problem and find the most appropriate solution? Is it possible for the mosquito to know about the buoyancy of water? Where does it get the knowledge of how to use this force?

However impossible it may be, let's suppose that the mosquito comes up with the solution for itself by observing other eggs and thinking about it at length. Even if that were the case, if there was no air hollow under the egg from the time it was laid, the mosquito's raft would be useless.

What's more, the mosquito is also created with an adhesive for sticking the eggs together, which is not dissolved by water over time. If it were not for this glue, there would be no meaning to the airspace under the egg or the mosquito's decision to make a raft.

Of course, there is also a reason for the raft made by the mosquito being disc-shaped. The disc shape is the most suitable for a raft. If the mosquito used another geometric shape, for example, a long, narrow rectangle, the raft could easily capsize. But the disc-shape best protects the raft from capsizing if the water is rippled.

It is not possible to claim that the details, which together make up such a harmonious system, could have evolved of their own accord over time. Furthermore, if one of these details were missing, it would not be possible to go back over the whole system again and it would be destroyed. The mosquito makes a raft which it cannot develop by means of "trial and error" and which certainly could not have been produced as a result of coincidence. Thus the sole explanation for this system is that this creature, which makes a raft just a few weeks at most after hatching from the egg, is endowed with the necessary knowledge and constitution for this task and has been "programmed" for it.

The mother mosquito binds the eggs together into a raft shape. This is the best solution for preventing the eggs from sinking.

It is quite a painstaking task to stick eggs together one by one and make a raft. And since these eggs will split open in the next season, the mosquito will die without seeing the result of its labour. After laying the eggs it has no further ties with the eggs. The mosquito, which will shortly die, goes to great lengths at no personal gain to ensure the safety of its eggs after its death.

Something that is really worthy of note at this point is that the mosquito has absolutely nothing to gain in spite of all its effort. The laborious task it carries out has no effect on its own life. That is to say, the mosquito doesn't go to these lengths to stay alive, but to save the next generation. It makes the most appropriate decision and does all the necessary things to perfection to succeed in a difficult task to save a generation it will never see, and will never know what conditions it will develop under and what dangers it will face.

Those who defend evolutionary theory claim that creatures exist because of coincidence, and suggest that there is a selfish struggle for life in nature. If this claim were true, the mosquito could be expected to take no interest in its young, to lay the eggs in any place and to make no effort to defend them and supply other needs. But as we can see from the information which has been provided so far, the mosquito does not behave in this way and puts a lot of effort into a job whose results it will never see.

Egg raft and hatching larvae.

It is quite plain to see that there is no struggle for life in the mosquito. The common-sense actions it takes are made under the inspiration it is provided with. It is God Who gives this sense of self-sacrifice to the mosquito. In the following verse of the Qur'an, God explains how everything is submissive to Him:

Everyone in the heavens and on the Earth belongs to Him. All are submissive to Him. It is He Who originated creation and then regenerates it. That is very easy for Him. His is the most exalted designation in the heavens and the Earth. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Qur'an, 30:26-27)