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To: Ichneumon

You're completely missing the point related to VESTIGIAL FEATURES. Modern science has made claims of no use, or de-selected use and then was PROVEN COMPLETELY WRONG, as more knowledge was discovered. That's why your use of these vestigial claims have so little credibility. Truthful (and non-emmbarrasing in the future) statements should be: WE DON'T KNOW OR UNDERSTAND WHAT THE USE IS?


135 posted on 02/18/2006 6:25:35 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: AmericaUnited
"Modern science has made claims of no use, or de-selected use and then was PROVEN COMPLETELY WRONG, as more knowledge was discovered."

This is incorrect. The point is that these structures are not being used for their original function. For instance, the ostrich limbs are no longer used for flying, even though they are obviously underdeveloped wings. The appendix no longer is used to digest cellulose, which is the function it had originally in our ancestors. THAT is what a vestigial organ is, and that was the understanding of what one is at least since Darwin.
139 posted on 02/18/2006 6:32:09 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: AmericaUnited
"Modern science has made claims of no use, or de-selected use and then was PROVEN COMPLETELY WRONG, as more knowledge was discovered

Ummm. That's the way science works. It self repairs until the conclusions are as accurate as possible. Finding new evidence is not embarrassing but quite expected.

181 posted on 02/18/2006 9:59:16 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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