For this Question Evolution day article I want to revisit a topic I discussed briefly in my article “Earth’s magnetic field: Testament to more than a young earth.” In the article I discussed how earth’s magnetic field, due to its rapid decay rate, is young. This demonstrates that the earth is much younger than the 4.5 billion years secularists claim it to to be, and that proves that both Darwinian evolution and the Big bang are false. I went on to discuss how the earth’s magnetic field displays properties of intelligent design—namely that it is used by some of God’s creatures for navigation. It’s that topic I return to for this Question Evolution article.
Some migrating birds navigate over hundreds or thousands of miles in order to find the same tree that they left months earlier. As the following X (nee Twitter) posts indicate, researchers indicate birds use quantum physics to achieve this. You read that correctly. Birds are using properties of quantum theory—the theory of very small particles which we only recently (relative to how long birds have been around) learned about—to navigate. Take a look:
This raises a number of uncomfortable questions for those believing in neo-Darwinism. (Neo-Darwinism is Darwinian evolution with undirected mutations added as the driving force behind variation). Here are some of those questions:
Given that neo-Darwinism is driven by undirected mutations and natural selection; there is no design, no engineering allowed, how can it be that:
1. As I point out in my article on the Creation Information Barrier, Information Theory defines scientific laws concerning information that state:
i) A material entity cannot generate a non-material entity
(The material cannot interact with the non-material)
ii) Information is a non-material entity
Given these laws and the premise that quantum theory and its properties, being information, is a non-material entity, this brings up obvious questions:
a) How could evolution use quantum physics properties to do anything since that would require information about those quantum properties, while evolution, a material process, cannot interact with a non-material entity such as the information related to quantum theory?
b) How could evolution even gain access to the information in quantum physics theory, e.g. the effect on electrons based on quantum theory and the magnetic field?
2. Why are the processes happening in a bird’s brain that involve quantum processes interpreted as something meaningful, specifically that it has something to do with navigation? This applies also to the alignment of microscopic crystals of magnetite, natural iron in the bird’s beak that physically align with the earth’s magnetic field, which acts like a biological compass. Why should it be understood by the bird to have anything to do with navigation or direction?
3. Even if these processes are somehow made to work, it still says nothing about how birds manage to navigate from point A to point B. Such direction-sensitive senses can only tell them when they’re off course. This suggests the question: How do the birds know what the course is, having never seen it or learned it? The fact that they can use these senses to navigate gives a strong indication that they have somehow have an internal course, an internal map that they’re using to navigate. Where did such information come from?
4. As noted at the start of the second video, the bird’s brain is small. How can the ability to “sense direction” as the videos put it, as well as the necessary internal maps needed to use that directional information, be packed so efficiently in the bird’s tiny brain? Remember, in addition to the fact that material processes cannot manipulate non-material information, there is no designer or engineer to efficiently store or compress the information or create the processes needed to use the information. How does the bird’s tiny brain store it all?
These are your questions for Question Evolution Day 2025. Please leave a comment if you figure any of them out.
Duane Caldwell | February 12, 2026 | Printer friendly version
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