Non-creationist and non believers in God let me ask you this?
There is a bird called the golden plover. It will nest in Northern Alaska. In the fall it flies across the shore of the Pacific Ocean. Then instead of flying along the coast it goes wide to Hawaii. Ome of them travel as far as New Zealand. My question is this. How is that possible without guidance from a source more intellegent than the birds. I mean I doubt those birds have ever checked mapqust! I doubt they ever talked to an airline pilot. So this proves a God is there to guide them right?
A simple google search tells you what you need to know. It’s special and heart-warming that you think goddidit O.o but there is actually a real explanation for it. I cut and paste this answer because some people don’t like clicking on a link:
Navigation
How do birds find their way? Simple. Through a combination of
Sighting (they don’t call it a “bird’s eye view” for nothing) features like rivers, coastlines, and mountain ranges.
Monitoring Earth’s magnetic field, apparently with their visual system and with tiny grains of a mineral called magnetite in their heads
Observing the stars
Using the sun for guidance
Smell
And probably following their neighbors (many birds migrate in large flocks)
Question: does it still sound simple? I didn’t think so. For example, birds which use magnetic navigation must deal with a small problem — magnetic north is 1,600 kilometers from the north pole. That means migrants leaving northern Alaska and following magnetic south would be travelling due west!
Second, star navigation changes as new constellations appear on the horizon as the birds travel north or south.
Although birds have apparently been overcoming these problems for millions of years, only in the past year have scientists figured out how at least one species of bird does it (see Constant Compass Calibration). It seems that the birds recalibrate their magnetic compasses against their star navigation during their rest stops along the migration route. And if they don’t have enough time at the rests, they get lost.
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