Vestigial organs may have functions

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 References 7 Related Claims 8 See Also

Claim

Practically all "vestigial" organs in humans have been shown to have definite uses and not to be vestigial at all.

Source

• Morris, Henry M., 1974, Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, pp. 75-76.
• Bergman, Jerry, 2000, Do any vestigial organs exist in humans?, Technical Journal 14(2): 95-98. [1]
• Dembski, William A., 1998 (Oct.). Science and Design. First Things 86: 21-27. [2]

Responses

1. Vestigial does not mean useless or without function nor does it imply it.
2. The fact that these organs still do something does not mean that they still do what they used to do when they were more prominent.
3. No creationist who has made this claim has bothered to experimentally discover what the function of the appendix of humans is.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Straw man (vestigial does not mean nonfunctional)

External Links

• Theobald, Douglas, 1999-2002. 29 Evidences for Macroevolution: Prediction 2.1: Anatomical vestiges. [3]

References

1. Morris, H., 1974. (see above).
2. Yamamoto Y, Jeffery WR., 2000. Central role for the lens in cave fish eye degeneration. Science 289(5479): 631-633.

Related Claims

• Evolutionists are changing the definition of vestigial
• The human appendix is functional, not vestigial
• Vestigial organs are just evidence of decay, not evolution

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?