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HARUN YAHYA

is found in two separate forms, differing in their oxygen carrying and
releasing capacities. This special creation lets the bird adapt rapidly
to varying levels of oxygen availability as it moves between different
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altitudes. This superior ability could be an advantage only if the
bird’s body was ideally created. Accordingly, the complex structure
of living species, and the remarkably skillful behavior, are too perfect
to consider the possibility of coincidence.

Evolution Cannot Explain the Root of
Migration

Scientists studying and conducting experiments on migration
have concluded that the mechanisms that make migration possible
are genetically transferred. Two different such experiments are quite
illuminating:
1) In one experiment, the eggs of the herring gull, a bird that
does not usually migrate, were exchanged with the eggs of the migra-
tory Lesser black-backed gull. Consequently, 900 hatchlings emerged
in the nests of the wrong family. Even though their “adopted” fami-
lies did not migrate, the Lesser black-backed gull hatchlings did!
2) Professor Peter Berthold, who has researched bird migration
for some 20 years, is president of the Max Planck Research Center for
Ornithology in Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Germany. Berthold and his
team confined thousands of migratory birds in one place and studied
their movements. The results were as follows:
a) The birds’ migratory behavior showed an inner and annual
rhythm. (These rhythms that organize animal behaviors which re-
quire physiological arrangements such as hibernation are based on a
genetic “biological clock.”) Although the birds were kept in a con-
stant environment with fixed cycles of light and darkness, they
showed a number of changes: weight gain, renewal of feathers, and

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