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MartinV 
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Message 10 of 18 (401692)
05-21-2007 2:42 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by jar
05-21-2007 1:33 PM


Re: Migration and Instinct
Of course darwinists like learning explanation in the case of migration of birds.
I am not sure it is the case. There were done experiments by German scientisst - as far as I remember from Sheldrake - that also captive solitary birds that were bred alone started to oriented themselves according position of stars on artifical firmament when migratory period started.
Anyway sometimes because of storms birds found themselves on strange locations. Yet:
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...storm blows the migrants sometimes thousands of kilometers off course. So at times pelicans from Mozambique may land up inland in Gauteng, being blown there by storms, to settle in for a week or two on open water; a dam, a nature reserve or a lake, only to leave and find their way across unknown territory to the place where they should be. This is achieved through the magnetic compass and being able to instinctively navigate back on course, after feeding and building up energy and fuel, through looking at the position of the of sun and the movement of the stars.
CANOPUS 99/06 - Bird Migration and Navigation
This orientation by stars is very interesting. I suppose darwinists do not like it - it would require some random mutation that created in heads of birds some map of celestial bodies on firmaments which they compare with real position of stars. I am not expert on navigation but even seamen do not oriented themselves on sea by stars without some other devices. So problem is so complicated that even experienced learned observer is unable to solve the orientation by star with naked eye only. You have to know the exact day and time you know.
And behind such phenomenon of birds orientation is only random mutation that created celestial map in their heads. According darwinism migratory birds without such celestial map created by RM did not survived - natural selection sent them to Hades I suppose.

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