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Experts must make complex calculations to obtain these figures, but a
bird cannot make such flawless calculations on its own behalf. Another fac-
tor here is that every incomplete flight will end in the plover’s drowning.
There can be no question of this ideal fuel consumption being learned by
trial and error, nor of one bird’s’ experiences being handed on to later gen-
erations. Therefore, in order to carry out this potentially lethal journey, the
plover must be able to make the entire flight from the moment it has learned
to fly. It is of course impossible for a bird to know:

* * Its destination and the shortest route to it,
* How far away that destination is,
* The speed at which it must fly,
* How much energy it must expend to fly that distance,
* How much fat it will have to store to accomplish it,
* That it needs to fly in a V formation with others to reduce the energy it
consumes,
* That it must set aside a reserve of fat in case of adverse weather con-
ditions.
No chance or unconscious mechanism can determine a bird’s ideal
flight formation or speed, nor how much stored energy it will need. That
these creatures, lacking the ability to take decisions and judgment, fly with
such a rational plan and calculated techniques can be explained by their
possessing the ideally appropriate bodily structures: These birds behave
according to the inspiration given them from the moment of their creation.
They live out their lives through the commands and supervision of our Lord,
the Creator of all things.

1. Werner Gitt, In the Beginning was Information, Master Books, March 15, 2006 p. 249.
2. Ibid., p. 251.
3. Ibid.