Stuu said:
6days said:
uh..... I wouldn't use Dawkins as a source if I was you. He has a habit of being wrong about almost everything. He often makes statements about things based on a lack of knowledge. I haven't studied the laryngeal nerve in giraffes but I suspect there likely is a design purpose for the length... Similar to how evolutionists once told us our appendix and many other parts were useless.
The challenge is to apply Occam's Razor to your interpretation of the evidence. That is what usually gives us the highest quality of information.
OK...let's do that! I agree.
Stuu said:
Here is Dawkins showing you the evidence and explaining it. If you think you can spot a flaw then you are welcome to use evidence to show he is wrong. Otherwise, in science the rather rude expression is put up or shut up.
The reason I advised you not to use Dawkins as your source is because he has a history of being incorrect. Dawkins is a wee bit of a dishonest evolutionary evangelist. Unfortunately, Dawkins is more interested in promoting his religious views, and his book sales than he is in science and honesty.
Stuu said:
Warning: the video shows the giraffe dissection. Towards the end it explains how the giraffe got the absurdly long nerve.....
Dawkins is like an apprentice electrician. He doesn't understand why the journeyman electrician wired things a certain way. So he assumes that the journeyman is wrong and then starts teaching others before he understands his business.
A few years ago an evolutionist challenged me with the same long nerve in humans, saying this nerve should not loop down into our chest. However I found that Gray’s Anatomy says “As the recurrent nerve hooks around the subclavian artery or aorta, it gives off several cardiac filaments to the deep part of the cardiac plexus. As it ascends in the neck it gives off branches, more numerous on the left than on the right side, to the mucous membrane and muscular coat of the esophagus; branches to the mucous membrane and muscular fibers of the trachea; and some pharyngeal filaments to the Constrictor pharyngis inferior.”
So Dawkins is mistaken by assuming this "absurdly long nerve services the larynx only. Does he bother to tell you that the nerve also services parts of the heart, windpipe muscles and mucous membranes, and the esophagus. Does he bother to tell you that there may be other functions or design purposes that he doesn't I know about? Nope... Dawkins is a snake oil salesman, and he has lots of buyers.
So...back to your comment about Occams Razor... are you willing to accept your advice and go with what the evidence indicates....
"In the beginning God created...."