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THE MIRACLE OF MIGRATION IN ANIMALS

tance travel, navigate, and judge time? Darwinists pass over such
questions with veiled explanations like the following:

The migratory habit has evolved independently among many kinds of
birds. Different species travel in different directions, to different places,
at different times, and for different reasons. Whatever the causes, mi-
gration would not have evolved unless the benefits exceeded the haz-
ards. 58
Those who consider no possibility besides evolution draw bi-
ased, limited conclusions in evolutionary terminology that doesn’t
clearly express the intended meaning. They clearly overlook the re-
markable aspects of animals risking their lives in crossing vast oceans
and deserts. Why do they feel the need to set off on such a dangerous
journey? How would they know they will find a suitable habitat
where they have never been before? Deviating from the journey by
even one degree could bring creatures to the middle of an ocean or
desert, so how do they manage to navigate so perfectly?
Migrating animals are also very exact in the timing of their jour-
neys. What makes a flock of birds take off at the same moment, as
though in agreement with one another? Who calculates the same pe-
riod every year? What makes the intricate mechanism known as “the
biological clock,” claimed to regulate annual behavior, work so per-
fectly? Who lets them know when the time has come and initiates
their pre-programmed movement?
Evolutionary ornithologists claim that birds’ migration routes
are shaped by weather conditions, subject to change with each new
generation. However, none of these elucidations explains how birds
can establish that there are suitable climatic conditions and a plentiful
food supply on the other side of the world, and can judge the best
routes as though reading a map. What’s more, evolutionists are un-
able to answer how these migration routes are passed on to subse-
quent generations.

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