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To: Senator Bedfellow

Yes, yes, reading is a good thing.

Please read the following link, with a snippet to wet the appetite:

Another pouch, thought to be vestigal, by evolutionists UNTIL JUST RECENTLY (emphasis mine), becomes a gland that assists in calcium balance."

http://www.christiankeys.ca/DictionaryNotes.html


569 posted on 12/04/2005 11:50:06 AM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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To: Sun

Changing the subject already? Probably a good move - the last topic didn't look good for you.


576 posted on 12/04/2005 12:00:30 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow (Sneering condescension.)
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To: Sun

The page you linked to is a great compendium of creationist misconceptions about what evolution is.

The specific example of vestigial is a great case in point. Vestigial does NOT meant that the organ/structure has no function now. It means that the organ/structure is doing something other than what it was originally designed for. This has been known since Darwin.

Just because you find a function for a structure (the appendix, for instance) does NOT meant the structure is not a vestige of an earlier structure that had a different function (in this case, the appendix was used to help digest cellulose in our ancestors.)

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section2.html#vestiges


579 posted on 12/04/2005 12:04:18 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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