Vestigial Organs

How do you combat someone who has a problem with intelligent design because things on this earth have useless parts, such as the pinky, toe or something like that?

 I like and value my pinkies and toes. Although we could live without pinkies and toes I am sure everybody like me has a special place in their heart for them.  I use my pinky to type, sometimes to count and to sign with. It’s also great to have a toe to help tell stories like “This little piggy goes to market.” Toes give us balance. They have importance because there are many bones positioned in our hands and feet that allow us to do many things. 

Our hands and feet alone make up for more than half the bones in our human body. In each human hand we have 27 bones and in our foot 26. Our feet, including all our toes, are used primarily for locomotion and for standing upright. It is important for me and all humans to have functional toes and fingers, which of course includes our little toe. The argument that I have encountered by evolutionists is that there are organisms on our body that are useless and show wasteful design. I have referred them to the medical science literature before they make such claims. In the beginning of the 1900’s it was believed that we had over 180 vestigial organs (evolutionary leftovers) Through the advancement of medical science it is now believed that every one of these so called wasteful designs have a use today. Like so many others that have been put back on the non-throw away list the appendix makes it mark as a real keeper. The appendix, (since1995) is considered an organ of the lymphatic system. I am glad I still have mine. Perhaps this quote might help you, taken out of the National Academy of Science publication in 1998; 

“But scientists continue to debate only the particular mechanisms that result in evolution, not the overall accuracy of evolution as the explanation of life’s history.”