Divine Revelation and Inspiration

UNIVERSAL EVIDENCE OF GOD AND THE HEREAFTER added. This chain kept growing in this way. Until the science of geography reached the level of progress we have today. Today, when the captain of a ship enters the sea and takes his ship from one coast of the ocean to another, or the pilot of an aeroplane takes off from one continent and lands on another, behind his action is presented the knowledge of a vast number of years of human experience. However, birds have no means of acquiring knowledge for their migratory journeys. They are completely cut off from such means of information. There is no mutual exchange of information among birds as happens among humans. Because of this, one bird cannot benefit from another bird’s travel experiences and gather information about travel routes from them. No bird pens down route details in the form of a book so that other birds can obtain guidance by reading it. However, despite being utterly bereft of such facilities, birds engage in long-distance travel just as humans do. They fly with fantastic accuracy from one location to another, like a rocket zipping around in space directed through radio control. The migratory flights of birds follow specific routes, sometimes entirely well-defined, over long distances, for instance, in the case of the paths of some birds shown in the map on the next page.