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Navigation in the Ocean

In an ocean thousands of square kilometers in size, how does a
fish find its way to its spawning ground? This raises a second ques-
tion: How does it know that a place where it has never been will be
suitable? These remarkable abilities and navigational skills of fish
clearly expose the pointlessness of any efforts to explain migration in
terms of an evolutionary process and coincidences.
Similarly intelligent behavior in animals is a subject the evolu-
tionists choose not to dwell on. This is why, when presented with an
example of this kind, they try to skirt around the issue with the word
“instinct.” But they are unable to give an explanation as to the source
of instinct. Even Charles Darwin himself makes the following confes-
sion in his book, The Origin of Species:

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