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Atheists:How can this be possible?

A few minutes ago i watched a documentary.In the documentary an antilope gave birth .As soon as the baby start walking it walked to drink milk from its mother.How can this baby know where the milk is?

Update:

atheists i am sure you dont believe what you say.

for a baby to survive it should have instinct

if instinct was developed with time how did the babies who didnt have this instinct survived in this period

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Instinct, cupcake.

    "if instinct was developed with time how did the babies who didnt have this instinct survived in this period"

    Exactly. They didn't...therefore, the ones without that instinct did not survive long enough to reproduce and pass their lack of that instinct on to offspring.

    That's how evolution works. No god required. Congratulations for realizing it and agreeing with it.

  • 9 years ago

    "if instinct was developed with time how did the babies who didnt have this instinct survived in this period"

    The first lactation oozed from the skin, it didn't come from nipples. Much like it still does in the platypus. The baby didn't need any special skills to find it, it could smell it.

    Nipples developed later from cutaneous glands, and there would have been lots of them, so once again easy to find.

    Sorry, just because you don't know much about a topic doesn't mean a god did it.

  • 9 years ago

    Don't tell me you've never heard of instinct....

    "if instinct was developed with time how did the babies who didnt have this instinct survided in this period"

    They didn't, and that's how the babies who got their milk survived and in turn were able to reproduce. It's called natural selection.

    Please don't be serious.

  • Fantom
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    >if instinct was developed with time how did the babies who didnt have this instinct survived in this period

    They didn't survive.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    There are actually many, many articles and videos on this subject. Please Google "breast crawl."

    Then realize that newborn mammals that cannot find the milk soon die of dehydration and don't live to pass on their genes. Newborns that can locate milk and nurse effectively (not all of them can nurse effectively) will live through infancy and have a chance at passing on their genes. Get it?

    If you can't be bothered, I'll give you a hint: smell. Not only can an infant smell its own mother's milk, they can smell milk from other moms! I couldn't hold a newborn for many years because as soon as I did, she would inevitably wake up and start rooting for my milk. Now I'm finished making milk for my own babies and it's no longer an issue.

  • That's what's known as instinct... behaviour organisms are born with.

    Why do you ask atheists?

    edit: as to your additional details: a large part of our survival instincts we only need because the rest of life is so ingenious in trying to end ours. It's an escalating arms race.

  • 9 years ago

    It's called millions of years of genetically-learned instinct.

    Interesting dilemma for Christians to work out - if God created the animals only for mankind, then what is the purpose to mankind of mosquitoes?

  • 9 years ago

    Instinct. Some things are hard-wired.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    instincts, something Christians lose by age 6

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    They call it instinct, carried down through genetics, developed over time through evolution.

    That's how it's possible.

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