Page 30 - The Miracle of Termites

Harun Yahya

Left: The cuckoo lays its eggs in another bird's nest. As soon as the chick
hatches, the first thing it does is push the other bird's eggs out of the nest.
Right: A parent bird feeding a young cuckoo much larger than itself.

cuckoo does, even before it can open its eyes, is to push the other eggs
out of the nest. Certainly this behavior cannot be learned; when the
cuckoo bird hatches, it perceives no other creature in its vicinity, but it

already knows what to do with the other eggs. In other words, the
cuckoo had this knowledge even before it was born.
Even if we suppose that a bird learned this behavior through ex-
perience, there would be no genetic possibility of one's passing it on to
subsequent generations. The acquired abilities would belong only to

that creature. Just as the child of a trained surgeon could not become a
doctor without being trained himself, learned behavior cannot be
passed on genetically to a creature's offspring. Considering this, we
can see how untenable and unscientific evolutionist claims truly are.
There is another important consideration: Behavior patterns of
the workers assigned to do almost everything in a termite nest require
collecting information, calculation, planning ability and judgment.
These behaviors cannot be inherited because the workers are infertile!

They cannot pass on their characteristics genetically. So even if we
suppose that a worker termite can learn the behavior appropriate to

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