Comments on: Vestigial Organs http://creation101.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:42:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: creation101 http://creation101.wordpress.com/useless-parts-of-the-body/#comment-10 creation101 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:41:06 +0000 http://creation101.wordpress.com/?page_id=37#comment-10 Perhaps the evolutionists would attribute nipples to the vestigial organ argument. As noted in 'The Collapse of Evolution' by Scott M. Huse (Baker): Vestigial organs are those structures which are presumed by evolutionists to be the useless remains of an organ which was once fully developed and operational in ancestral types. Such structures have long been cited as evidence for evolution since they are assumed to represent former evolutionary changes. The vestigial Organ argument is still cited today as evidence for evolution despite the fact that modern genetics has exposed the idea as flawed. We now know that the development of an organ is not determined by it's use or disuse but rather the genetic code (DNA) held in the chromosomes. Textbooks as recently as the 1960's listed over 200 vestigial structures for the human body, including the thyroid and pituitary glands! Today all organs formerly classed as vestigial are known to have some function during the life of the organism. Surprisingly, even if the Vestigial Organ argument were accurate it would not lend support to evolution because it implies structures on the way out, not in. New organs, those under construction or developing into a functional unit are completely nonexistent. This fact serves as a powerful argument against evolution. Perhaps the evolutionists would attribute nipples to the vestigial organ argument. As noted in ‘The Collapse of Evolution’ by Scott M. Huse (Baker): Vestigial organs are those structures which are presumed by evolutionists to be the useless remains of an organ which was once fully developed and operational in ancestral types. Such structures have long been cited as evidence for evolution since they are assumed to represent former evolutionary changes.

The vestigial Organ argument is still cited today as evidence for evolution despite the fact that modern genetics has exposed the idea as flawed. We now know that the development of an organ is not determined by it’s use or disuse but rather the genetic code (DNA) held in the chromosomes. Textbooks as recently as the 1960’s listed over 200 vestigial structures for the human body, including the thyroid and pituitary glands! Today all organs formerly classed as vestigial are known to have some function during the life of the organism.

Surprisingly, even if the Vestigial Organ argument were accurate it would not lend support to evolution because it implies structures on the way out, not in. New organs, those under construction or developing into a functional unit are completely nonexistent. This fact serves as a powerful argument against evolution.

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