Nature documentaries on the Jesus channel
I saw part of an interesting nature show the other night. It was about giraffes, or at least the few minutes I watched were about giraffes.
It takes giraffes a long time to stand up after they lay down. This makes them vulnerable to predators, so they try to avoid laying down. Very sensible of them. So they give birth standing up. But dropping a baby on its head from 6 feet up is a bad idea, so the babies come out hindlegs first, and the afterbirth acts as a rope, slowing the descent. Cool, huh?
This, of course, proves intelligent design. See, the giraffe couldn't evolve this method of giving birth, because all the babies would have had their skulls crushed in the first generation. A species can't evolve if all the babies die. Therefore, a higher power must have designed giraffes to give birth this way.
It's a very convincing argument, isn't it? Provided, of course, you focus only on the evolutionary theory of "one day, all the giraffes woke up very tall and then evolved so that their babies would survive falling 6 feet" or the more controversial "giraffes reproduced by budding for many generations and then decided to switch to sexual reproduction and luckily had their babies back-legs-first on the first try." It is also recommended that you ignore all cases of breech birth in other species, because only an intelligent designer could have thought of having the back come out first when every other mammalian species does it the other way around every time.
I kept waiting for the narrator to explain that such a mind-boggling useful adaptation could not have evolved by chance, thus proving the nonexistence of God, but instead he went off on a tangent about the thorns on the trees that giraffes eat and Jesus' crown of thorns, and we changed the channel.
It takes giraffes a long time to stand up after they lay down. This makes them vulnerable to predators, so they try to avoid laying down. Very sensible of them. So they give birth standing up. But dropping a baby on its head from 6 feet up is a bad idea, so the babies come out hindlegs first, and the afterbirth acts as a rope, slowing the descent. Cool, huh?
This, of course, proves intelligent design. See, the giraffe couldn't evolve this method of giving birth, because all the babies would have had their skulls crushed in the first generation. A species can't evolve if all the babies die. Therefore, a higher power must have designed giraffes to give birth this way.
It's a very convincing argument, isn't it? Provided, of course, you focus only on the evolutionary theory of "one day, all the giraffes woke up very tall and then evolved so that their babies would survive falling 6 feet" or the more controversial "giraffes reproduced by budding for many generations and then decided to switch to sexual reproduction and luckily had their babies back-legs-first on the first try." It is also recommended that you ignore all cases of breech birth in other species, because only an intelligent designer could have thought of having the back come out first when every other mammalian species does it the other way around every time.
I kept waiting for the narrator to explain that such a mind-boggling useful adaptation could not have evolved by chance, thus proving the nonexistence of God, but instead he went off on a tangent about the thorns on the trees that giraffes eat and Jesus' crown of thorns, and we changed the channel.