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Selfless Devotion of Creatures Within the Family

Usually mammals recognize their own young by their smell and
taste. As soon as a baby is born, the mother sniffs and licks it and from
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then on, never confuses it with any other.
Among the most successful creatures in this respect are penguins.
They look so alike that when humans observe them carefully, it's almost
impossible to tell them apart. Thus it is so astonishing that the members
of a penguin family can recognize one another with no difficulty.
Consider that the mother leaves her mate and young for a period of two
to three months in order to search for food. Yet on her return, she recog-
nizes them both.
Among the hundreds of other penguins, the mother penguin easily
finds her own mate and their chick. More interestingly, before the adult
females set off to go hunting in the sea, they gather all the young to form
a nursery as a precaution against the freezing cold. The young birds stay
closely packed together, taking advantage of one another's body heat.
But there is one problem: How are the adult birds going to recognize

their own young on their return from their hunting trip from among the
hundreds of other birds. This though does not seem to pose a problem
for penguins. Each adult begins to call at high pitch and the young birds
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recognize their parents by their sound and move towards them. No
doubt, recognition by voice is under these circumstances the most ap-
propriate method for the thousands of penguins. But, how come pen-
guins have the very same appearance but distinct voices so they can rec-
ognize one another? Furthermore, how did they acquire the skill to dis-
tinguish each other by voice? No penguin could have come up with the
idea of such qualities and skills and then adopt them by themselves.
These must be given qualities, but by whom? According to evolution-
ists, it is nature—but what part or feature of it could provide animals
with such abilities? The ice on the poles, maybe? Perhaps the rocks?
Obviously neither, because "nature," to which evolutionists ascribe this
and many other powers consists of rocks, stones, trees, ice and the like,
which are a totality of created matter. Therefore, the answer to the above

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