Tag: giraffe’s neck

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
March 19, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Africa, ball-and-socket joints, cervical vertebrae, Congo Basin, embryological development, engineering, engineers, evolutionary adaptation, evolutionary theory, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, hero shrew, human embryo, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, nervous system, neural plate, neural systems, sloth, spinal columns, spinal cord, spine, synchronization, vertebrae, vertebral column}

The Spine, Human and Otherwise: A Miracle of Embryological Development

_{Stuart Burgess
March 19, 2026

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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The sloth has ten neck vertebrae whereas almost all other mammals have seven. The sloth’s extra vertebrae allow it to swivel its neck almost all the way around Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, ancestors, bedtime story, blood circulation, cells, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, giraffe evolution, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, heart, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, missing link, okapi, Samotherium major, taxon, transitional fossils, variations, vertebrae, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Is This a Transitional “Missing Link” for Giraffes? Nope

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 28, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

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The giraffe’s fossil record reflects a pattern of abrupt appearance rather than the infinitesimally small variations. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Zoology
Tagged
, common descent, common design, environmental shifts, evolutionary lineage, evolutionary sequence, fossil record, geneticists, geological evidence, giraffe evolution, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, ID the Future, intermediates, Neo-Darwinism, Samotherium major, silos, stasis, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Giraffes and the Fossil Record: Bad News for Neo-Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 26, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology, Zoology

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Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig highlights the discrepancies in the fossil record that cause the traditional Darwinian narrative to unravel. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, computer scientists, evolution, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, Giraffidae, Jonathan Witt, mathematicians, mathematics, missing links, mosaic, okapi, Science and Culture Today}

A Link Between the Okapi and the Giraffe? It Seems Not

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Zoology

2}

The question of how the giraffe’s extremely long neck originated remains entirely unresolved within an evolutionary framework. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), okapi, President, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 7, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, blood pressure, blood vessels, carpal tunnel syndrome, Charles Darwin, circadian rhythms, evolution, evolutionists, genes, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, J.P. Moreland, Lamarckism, mutations, nerves, Science (journal), Science Advances, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen}

Giraffe Genome Is Not Evolutionary

_{Science & Culture
May 7, 2021

Evolution

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Ah, the giraffe. Darwin put his mechanism at war with Lamarck’s to explain the giraffe’s long neck. Evolutionists are still battling over the question. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, atomists, bees, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, evolution, French Revolution, Georges Cuvier, giraffe’s neck, J.B.S. Haldane, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, paleontologists, Plato, punctuated equilibrium, scientific materialism, Scott Turner, tautology, teleology, vitalism}

Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 16, 2021

Biology, Evolution

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The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›