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Harun Yahya

short legs by stepping sideways, thus tiring their muscles less.
Indeed, at the end of every step they have meanwhile stored suffi-
cient energy for the next one. 58
Were they to walk straight instead of side to side, penguins would

have to expend twice as much energy as any animal their size. Yet
thanks to this special gait, the penguin expends energy only when be-
ginning walking, and when stopping. And its limited amount of
stored nourishment is enough for it to reach the sea.
Of course, a gait that conserves energy is not something the pen-
guin could have discovered on its own. Moreover, this is something
adopted by all penguins, not just one.
From the moment they are born, penguins know how to survive
under the harsh conditions of winter. Any other behavior would have
serious consequences, even death. It is out of the question for a pen-
guin in the freezing cold to experiment with what it needs to do and
finally decide to adopt this particular gait,
which is yet another proof of God's love
and compassion for living things. It is
God Who creates penguins and
inspires their behavior in
them, Who has shaped
all living things and

created them together
with all their incompara-
bly perfect features.

Adnan Oktar

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