Tag: Giraffe
Giraffe Weekend: “You Cannot Simply Stretch out the Neck”
The giraffe is one of those all-star icons of evolution, familiar from textbook covers, that falls apart on closer inspection.
These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers
Darwin thought everything evolved from a simple cell by mindless chance processes. The animals don’t know that.
With Plant Galls, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Falsifies Darwinism
Charles Darwin famously offered a suggestion as to how his theory could be falsified.
A Tall Tale of Evolution: The Neck of the Giraffe
German geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Tackles Giraffe Evolution Last year, German geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig critiqued evolutionary accounts of the infamously complex long neck of the giraffe. He recounts how various Darwinists had claimed things like “the evolution of the long-necked giraffe can be reconstructed through fossils,” but Lönnig concluded that “the fossil evidence for the gradual evolution of the long-necked giraffe is — as expected — completely lacking.” Lönnig has now written part 2 of his refutation of this evolutionary tall tale, where he now shifts the focus away from paleontology and on to giraffe anatomy, diet, behavior, and zoology, tackling evolutionary hypotheses about giraffe origins. Part 2 can be read at “The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe: What Do We Read More ›