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THE MIRACLE OF MIGRATION IN ANIMALS

Natural Selection and Mutations Cannot
Explain Living Creatures’ Perfect
Structures and Behavior

New-hatched chicks follow exactly the same migration routes
used by previous generations, without the guidance of experienced
birds. The hummingbird has a brain the size of a grain of corn and a
body weighing 2 to 5 grams (0.07 to 0.1 ounces), yet it covers great
distances perfectly. According to evolutionists, natural selection is
why a living creature lives in harmony with its environment and mi-
grates to a more beneficial region. But when evolutionary scientists
claim that there is competition and struggle between living creatures
in nature and that animals are still evolving by means of natural se-
lection, they are making a great scientific blunder. Today, it is an ac-
cepted fact that natural selection has no evolutionary effect and
therefore, falls far short of explaining the origin of living species.
According to natural selection, creatures whose physical charac-
teristics make them best adapted to their environment have a better
chance of surviving to breed. However, this advantage never results
in the creature’s evolution. For example, birds’ tendency to migrate is
no reason for large wingspan, as some evolutionists claim. Natural
selection will never transform them into a different living species or
provide them with any organ or characteristic that they didn’t al-
ready possess. Natural selection can only encourage birds with large
wings to fly greater distances, to where better living conditions pre-
vail.
As a mechanism, natural selection was described before
Darwin. For example, in a flock of birds threatened by freezing cold,
those physically able to fly long distance will survive and over time,
the rest will become fewer in number or die out. But Darwin gave
natural selection a different meaning. By asserting that this mecha-

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