giraffe Type post Author Jonathan Witt Date March 13, 2023 CategoriesEngineeringEvolutionIntelligent 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 10 The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›
Galápagos finch Type post Author Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Date November 24, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , alleles, beak size, Charles Darwin, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, evolution, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, genera, macroevolution, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton University, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Sisyphean evolution, speciation, species, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe Galápagos Finches — An “Exceptionally Strong Natural-Selection Event”? Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig November 24, 2020 Evolution 4 This is by no means an all-or-nothing selection (as the impression is sometimes given). Rather, the alleles are retained. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 22, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, natural selection, peacock, podcast, Research, sexual selection, specified complexity, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, tiger, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Giraffe Weekend: Can Sexual Selection Save This Evolutionary Icon? David Klinghoffer July 22, 2018 Evolution, Intelligent Design 1 Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig concludes that, “Sexual selection is not the cause of the long-necked giraffe.” Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 21, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionGeneticsIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, "poor design", brain, dysteleology, engineer, evolution, fish, gills, Giraffe, heart, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, podcast, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, Richard Dawkins, tetrapods, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe Giraffe Weekend: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve David Klinghoffer July 21, 2018 Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design 2 Darwinists have called it one of “nature’s worst designs,” “obviously a ridiculous detour,” asserting that “no engineer would ever make a mistake like that.” Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 20, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionGeneticsIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, "survival of the fittest", biology textbooks, evolution, Giraffe, ID the Future, intelligent design, mutations, neck, podcast, Richard Dawkins, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Giraffe Weekend: “You Cannot Simply Stretch out the Neck” David Klinghoffer July 20, 2018 Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design 1 The giraffe is one of those all-star icons of evolution, familiar from textbook covers, that falls apart on closer inspection. Read More ›
