THE BIRD WORK WEEK
Myles Willard is a former high school science teacher, an award winning nature photographer, and an avid bird watcher. Being a systematic observer of nature, Myles noticed that during the fall of each year, a large number and variety of warblers stopped to rest in a Cedar tree outside of his Michigan kitchen window. He decided to document both the variety and number of warblers migrating south. For the next 18 years, Willard compiled an impressive documentation of over 1,500 individual warbler sightings from over 20 different species.
It was upon graphing the results of these sightings that Myles made a shocking observation. He expected to see a typical bell-shaped distribution of bird sightings with the peak happening somewhere in mid-September. When he aligned the various distributions so that the peak of the migration for each individual bird species corresponded, Willard discovered a bell-shaped distribution with statistically significant dips at a 7-day period. Instead of a smooth bell curve, his data showed a bell distribution with drops (like missing teeth in a saw) every 7 days. Apparently, birds have a built-in instinct to work hard on their migration for 6 days and hold up for one day of rest.
There is no naturalistic explanation for this very significant Biblical cycle.
It is worth noting that many,many other living things work on a 7-day cycle. It's not just limited to birds.
Myles Willard is a former high school science teacher, an award winning nature photographer, and an avid bird watcher. Being a systematic observer of nature, Myles noticed that during the fall of each year, a large number and variety of warblers stopped to rest in a Cedar tree outside of his Michigan kitchen window. He decided to document both the variety and number of warblers migrating south. For the next 18 years, Willard compiled an impressive documentation of over 1,500 individual warbler sightings from over 20 different species.
It was upon graphing the results of these sightings that Myles made a shocking observation. He expected to see a typical bell-shaped distribution of bird sightings with the peak happening somewhere in mid-September. When he aligned the various distributions so that the peak of the migration for each individual bird species corresponded, Willard discovered a bell-shaped distribution with statistically significant dips at a 7-day period. Instead of a smooth bell curve, his data showed a bell distribution with drops (like missing teeth in a saw) every 7 days. Apparently, birds have a built-in instinct to work hard on their migration for 6 days and hold up for one day of rest.
There is no naturalistic explanation for this very significant Biblical cycle.
It is worth noting that many,many other living things work on a 7-day cycle. It's not just limited to birds.
THE BIRD WORK WEEK
Myles Willard is a former high school science teacher, an award winning nature photographer, and an avid bird watcher. Being a systematic observer of nature, Myles noticed that during the fall of each year, a large number and variety of warblers stopped to rest in a Cedar tree outside of his Michigan kitchen window. He decided to document both the variety and number of warblers migrating south. For the next 18 years, Willard compiled an impressive documentation of over 1,500 individual warbler sightings from over 20 different species.
It was upon graphing the results of these sightings that Myles made a shocking observation. He expected to see a typical bell-shaped distribution of bird sightings with the peak happening somewhere in mid-September. When he aligned the various distributions so that the peak of the migration for each individual bird species corresponded, Willard discovered a bell-shaped distribution with statistically significant dips at a 7-day period. Instead of a smooth bell curve, his data showed a bell distribution with drops (like missing teeth in a saw) every 7 days. Apparently, birds have a built-in instinct to work hard on their migration for 6 days and hold up for one day of rest.
There is no naturalistic explanation for this very significant Biblical cycle.
It is worth noting that many,many other living things work on a 7-day cycle. It's not just limited to birds.
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