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