God Arises
Affirmation of Prophethood
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ten miles away from each other. From there they
reach West Africa.
There is something quite extraordinary about these
flights. An ornithologist writes: “Birds have evolved
a highly efficient means for travelling swiftly over
long distances with great economy of energy.”
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But their minds are quite inferior to the human
mind. And they have no way of receiving help from
the various fields of science. Nor is there any
evidence to indicate that the birds have acquired
their abilities through a process of evolution. How
is this astonishing phenomenon to be explained? A
thorough examination of the subject produces only
two possible suppositions: firstly, that these birds
have a complete knowledge of the geography of
Europe, Asia and Africa, and of their lands and
seas, a notion which is purely conjectural, this never
having been borne out by research; secondly, that
they are being given constant geographic guidance
by some invisible remote control arrangement such
as is given to unmanned rockets by radio control.
This second supposition is closer to the facts and
makes
the
concept
of
revelation
fully
