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HARUN YAHYA

summer. But it’s an especially hot summer. So he decides ‘You know, I
think I’m going to go to Kansas.’ So he flies north, looking for a little
cooler weather. And then each year, he may go a little further south, a
little further north until they get all the way up to the Arctic and all the
way down to South America.” Well, this little bird breaks that rule. First
of all, it’s a very small bird, about the size of a dove. And it’s not a
swimmer. And it lives up in the Arctic, in Alaska actually. They leave
their young and then fly to Hawaii for the winter. Now, when it leaves
Alaska, it has an 88-hour flight, nonstop because there is no land in be-
tween. Three days and four nights, nonstop. How does it do that? Well,
these little birds begin to eat a lot, and they gain about 70 grams of
burnable energy. Here is the problem: We’ve got an 88-hour flight, and
they burn 1 gram per hour. That only gives them 70 hours worth of fuel.
So they’re going to drop into the ocean as non-swimmers, a few hours
short of Hawaii. Well then, how do they get there? Well, because God
made them so they fly in formation and they alternate leaders and so
they break the air waves there so it makes it easy like geese fly in for-
mation. And that cuts the energy it takes to fly... The evolutionary ex-
planation doesn’t fit because there’s no way they could go a little bit
each year. A little bit further south; they’re fish prey. So they can’t do it.
So the evolutionary explanation doesn’t work on that. 74
It is not possible for this little bird to establish by trial and error
what method it should use and how much fat it should burn in order
to be able to migrate. Failure on any flight would mean death for the
bird, and no question of it passing on its experience to future genera-
tions. It is ridiculous to assert that through some unconscious mecha-
nism such as natural selection, a bird has learned that it is not
possible to fly alone or with 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of fat. It is also be-
yond the realms of probability that genetic coding of finely calculated
flying techniques is based on destructive influences like mutations.

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