November 8, 2016 at 1:01pm · Magnifying GOD submitting creatures This is a small study on the number of creatures who disagreed with Satan (33:72). They took the opportunity to kill their egos and submit to God's absolute authority. Of the billions of creatures that live on earth, which do you think are the largest in number? The first reaction would be to say "human beings", of course. Why, our species seem to be just about everywhere. Well, for all our arrogance we would be surprised to learn that we are very wrong. And, we would be astounded to find out that the record for the most abundant organisms on Earth is held by insects. And even among insects, it is the ants that dominate. Sura 27 Al Naml - The Ant. Mã shã Allah. All praise be to God. From the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America, there are over 20,000 species of ants, and those are only the ones that have been discovered so far. In the rain forests, ants make up ten percent of what scientists term the biomass. That is, if all the animals, birds and insects in the forest were to be collected, dried and weighed, for every 100 kgs. of combined weight, 10 kgs. would be made up of ants alone. Did you know that for every 100 kgs. of people, there are 1,000 kgs of termites!!!!!! Did you know that a single tree in the tropics can have more than 1,000 different kinds of insects living on it at the same time!!!!! No one is quite sure how many species live on our planet. Scientists believe that less than 5 per cent of the world's species have been recorded by humans. So far 1.4 million species have been identified. But scientists estimate that the total number of species could be any where between 10 and 100 million. Data from "The Diversity of Life" by E. O. Wilson provide us the breakup of the 1.4 million species identified: Bacteria 4,800 species Fungi 69,000 species Algae 26,900 species Trees, shrubs and higher plants 248,400 species Protozoa 30,800 species Sponges 5,000 species Corals and jellyfish 9,000 species Flatworms 12,200 species Roundworms 12,000 species Earthworms 12,000 species Clams and other mollusca 50,000 species Seastars and relatives 6,100 species Insects 751,000 species Spiders and other non insect anthropods 123,400 species Fishes 18,800 species Amphibians 4,200 species Reptiles 6,300 species Birds 9,000 species Mammals 4,000 species ---------------- 1402,900 species