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The Giraffe’s Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve — a Stumbling Block for Intelligent Design?

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On an episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig continue their discussion of why the body plan of the long-necked giraffe could not have evolved in a step-by-step Darwinian fashion.

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Dr. Lönnig gives an account of the rational design of the giraffe’s recurrent laryngeal nerve, a feature that Richard Dawkins and other evolutionists claim can only be explained by Darwinian evolution.

Image credit: D. Gordon E. Robertson (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

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