AFFIRMATION OF PROPHETHOOD

Affirmation of Prophethood ~ 253 ~ 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.”2 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