As Hitching notes, ‘the evolution of the giraffe, the tallest living animal, is often taken as classic evidence that Darwin was right and Lamarck wrong’,54 but a study of giraffes provides no ‘evidence whatsoever for how their undeniably useful necks evolved’.55 As a Darwinist, he is concerned about using the giraffe’s neck example as support for evolution because, as he states, ‘if we continue to illustrate our conviction [of Darwinian evolution] with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story … ’, then evolutionists are in trouble.54 It is clear from biology, and especially molecular biology, that evolution is in trouble.1 Gould’s major concern about this case is ‘if we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction in evidence), then we are in for trouble—as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then as- sume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration.’56 The critics now have nailed not only this major weakness in Darwinism, but its many other weaknesses as well.