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Hello friends, Greg Cocoel here. I'll stand a reason special show today since I am off schedule because I am probably right now on my back

in a hospital somewhere in Southern California because they cut my leg off and then sewed it back on again.

Sounds pretty gruesome, doesn't it? Well, it's just a hip replacement. So and from what I understand and that would be January 4 when the operation, I guess I'd have to use past tense now took place.

Not sure when this particular broadcast will air, but since I'm not in studio taking your calls on those days, I have not left few as orphans. I am here.

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And so, and we will be doing that for the bulk of the, I'll do two shows like that for you, but I wanted to read something to you. It's almost in the category of truth is stranger than fiction.

And here I'm talking about how people take incredibly sophisticated biological systems of sort and then they simply give the nod to Darwinian evolution that the creatures have adapted somehow

to manifest this capability. Okay, I mean, and there's a gazillion of them. I actually just last week was in Grand Rapids with Sonderven filming the 10 session video series to go with the new book Street Smarts, which will come out in late June.

And I was talking a little bit about that and how, for example,

animals can navigate with GPS, so to speak. It's a virtual GPS, but they use the magnetic field around the earth for that purpose. And when I see animals, I mean living creatures, I don't mean like there are mammals that have developed the ability to do this.

If one type of mammals lay a whale, which uses this feature, we're able to do that. To me, that would be beyond how it would stretch the the boundaries of credulity to think that such a thing could happen by accident that some kind of capability to navigate in a way that ensures their survival of this particular beast.

Here, that that could come up about through a series of biological accidents. Just think of your GPS, your own GPS, your iPhone, whatever. I mean, you're not going to get a series of mechanical accidents that's going to produce the capability of a flip phone to become a GPS with a screen on it or something like that. Well, given enough time. No, it doesn't matter how much time you're given.

It tells you that. And by the way, nobody has ever demonstrated how these things actually came about through evolution. It's just presumed incidentally, I just mentioned the whale. If we were one, but mammals can do this whales, fish could do this, right? Sammon butterflies could do this. That's insects. That's not even a vertebrate monarchs.

Let's see. What else? Well, the beast could do it. That's another mammal, I guess.

And there's a couple of other actually is a whole bunch more. In other words, there are all these critters, sea turtles. Okay. That's a reptile. All these birds in their migrations.

And by the way, in the case of monarchs, these monarchs, after they leave their nesting, their winter hibernation, which requires that they live for three months, which most monarchs don't live that long.

They only live a few weeks, the adult version. Then they start moving north and reproducing. And then they start folding, falling back south again, reproducing. And so like the sixth generation is the special generation,

which monarch, in a certain sense, remembers where it's great, great, great, great, great ancestor was born and goes back to the same location.

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