RE: Giraffe evolution
October 7, 2012 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2012 at 2:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 6, 2012 at 8:05 pm)Hughsie Wrote: I get that bit, but how did the specialised and complex blood pumping system come about? He thinks that bit is irreducibly complex.
Best guess...millimeter by millimeter. It would be a miracle indeed if the giraffe's neck( and related plumbing) came about in a single generation. Unfortunately soft tissue doesn't fossilize well (and nothing fossilizes often). The plumbing itself would have had to come before the elongation of the neck. Genetics might help to figure this one out some day, but it may not. What's irreducibly complex about it, specifically (if you don't mind asking him)? Genetics might offer some insight as to how this -might- or -could- have happened, what does magic bring to the table?
(October 6, 2012 at 10:55 pm)IATIA Wrote: The fresher leaves are at the end of the branches and the tops of the trees. However, we do not know where the leaves were several million years ago in relation to the giraffes at the time. it may also be a combination of the ability to reach out of reach leaves and view predators.
Or...and I'm just spit-balling here, but maybe giraffes knew that someday cretinists would attempt to use them as a "argument for cretinism" and they bred longer and longer necks to get above the stench of holy bullshit. I feel as confident in this magical explanation as any other, it also has more explanatory power, and references 3x as many things which can be demonstrably shown to exist as the god guess.
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