Page 21 - The Miracle of Migration in Animals

HARUN YAHYA

stars, or traces of river chemicals are tasks that few people could
manage. This brings to mind a series of questions that need to be an-
swered:
- How do these animals know in which direction from their cur-
rent location lie suitable habitats, breeding and feeding grounds?
- The moment an animal comes into the world, how can it de-
cide that a far-off place it has never seen is a suitable environment?
- How have animals discovered that they can use the stars and
the Sun to find their way?
- Who teaches them how to do so, from the time they enter the
world?
The common answer to these questions is that animals are not
capable of any of these feats on the strength of their own intelligence
and knowledge. The information they possess to undertake such a
journey is given them before they are born. They are programmed. In
that case, who is their programmer? It is God, of course, Who knows
all. Their Creator and the Creator of all things inspires these skills in
them. Any efforts to explain this by the imaginary evolutionary the-
ory are eternally doomed to failure.
Ants that use the Sun as a reference can find their way without

getting lost, due to the abilities they have been given. However, the
Sun moves at an angle of approximately 15 degrees an hour, which
makes using it as a reference point more difficult. But on their way
home, these little insects establish their current location by taking
into consideration how long they’ve been outside and the angle by
which the Sun’s position has changed, to find their way back to the
nest without going astray. Honeybees, too, are able to know the
movements of the Sun and make estimates accordingly. If these bees
have found a food source in a south-easterly direction by the end of
the day, in the morning before setting off again, they calculate how
much the Sun has changed position and move in the correct direction

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