SOME MIGRATION PHENOMENA Of all the evolutionarily inexplicable phenomena of the natural world, the instinct of migration comes very nearly the top of my list. I put a number of such examples in my little book How Does Instinct Evolve?, and the critics of that book have never read it, and totally ignore the examples given. JB, for example, has admitted that he hasnt read it, and sworn that he will savage the book. I asked him, that in all fairness, he should preface his savaging with the admission that he has not read it, which I thought was a fair enough request! Be that as it may. For eye-watering marvels, and as examples of just how incapable evolution is to account for these mighty phenomena of the natural world, migration is as I say, near the top of my list. Here is an account of the Samoan plovers migration, and the sooty shearwaters journeys. THE SAMOAN TULI (Plovers, turnstones and tattlers) Source: hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Pacific/Natural_History_Guide_to_American_Samoa.pdf April/May is the time of year when some familiar visitors leave American Samoa and begin an incredible and perilous journey home. These visitors are the shorebirds, or tuli . Three different kinds of tuli are common visitors here between the months of September and April: the Pacific Golden Plover, the Wandering Tattler, and the Ruddy Turnstone. During the northern summer, all three tuli nest in Alaska and northern Canada. The plover and the turnstone nest in the tundra, where their neighbors are caribou and grizzly bears. The tattlers nest by icy mountain streams, sharing their world with mountain sheep and golden eagles. But when the northern days grow shorter and colder, the birds probably begin to dream of the beaches and reefs of Polynesia, for they set out on one of the greatest of all animal journeys. From gathering places on the coasts of Alaska, the tuli take off to fly NON-STOP OVER 3,000 MILES OF OPEN OCEAN to the Hawaiian Islands. These birds cannot land on the water and take a rest - - their feathers are not waterproof, so if they land in the water, they drown. Not only is this flight an amazing physical feat, but it requires tremendous navigational abilities to find tiny specks of land lost in the featureless sea. After a well- earned rest in Hawaii, the tuli take off again for another flight over thousands of miles of ocean to reach Samoa. In point of fact, the journey from Alaska to Samoa, is over 5,000 miles. There are no landmarks in the air - nothing in fact to act as a guide to the birds. How any evolutionist can possibly account for the origin of such a journey, and for how the necessary information ever entered the genome of the birds, is a total mystery. The simple fact of the matter is that he cant account for it: and we are left with the only other viable explanation: God did it, when He created these lovely little creatures.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:04:51 +0000