The same nerve also exists in giraffes and does the same thing so it is consequently fucking massive.
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ch00f@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[32]: 74–75 has been cited as evidence of evolution, as the nerve’s route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish).
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
wischi@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Intelligent design. Same with our eyes 🤣 just put them in backwards and thread the cables through the retina; genius. Octopuses are clearly gods chosen “people”.
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The intelligent design geniuses argue that the eye is too complex to have evolved.
“Of course it didn’t evolve like that! It started with a patch of light-sensitive cells and worked it’s way up from there. And that’s happened more than once.”
They have to think evolution means that creatures and features popped into existence fully formed. Not only because that’s how the Bible tells it, they can’t comprehend evolution on a 7,000-yo Earth.
You’ve got the killer argument though. “Why didn’t God bother to make our eyes like he did with the octopus?”
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
I remember my stepdad citing Pokemon in his arguments against evolution
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Damn! Almost commented that they take evolution as Pokemon!