[DouglasKC]

I remember hearing about "vestigial" organs extensively when being taught evolutionary theory in school. Things sure do change.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Very intresting.

[Redcloak]

In Democrats, the brain is a vestigial organ.

[Notwithstanding]

Science keeps discovering more about God's masterful designs!

[AmericaUnited]

More Evo's jumping out of windows ping...

[DejaJude]

How many have been taught in school about our body's supposed "vestigial organs"? The standard definition of a vestigial organ is a body part that was once useful in a species' ancestral past but has now become virtually useless.

This is how I feel about today's democrats. Once useful, but now useless.

[AmericaUnited]

Don't get depressed, there's still other bogus theories that can still be clung to... :)

[zarf]

At this source material has no agenda. < / hacking, phlegmy cough>

[Mrs.Z]

My mom broke her coccyx, and had a heck of a time with basic "elimination".

So much for vestigial.

[jiggyboy]

Dina Byrnes: I had no idea you could milk a cat.
Greg Focker: Oh yeah, you can milk anything with nipples.
Jack Byrnes: I have nipples Greg. Could you milk me?

[rface]

Kerry's mouth is a vestigial organ

[Radix]

I suppose that if I had read every single word of the article I might have found some salient point.

As an anecdote, I was walking in a little coffee shop (in a hospital) couple of days ago, and I heard one Doctor talking to a few associates about his having to deal with a "vestigial tail" for his first time ever.

I found the comment intriguing, but I did not know these people.

It was a complete HIPPA violation, but it stilled piqued my curiosity.

[IronJack]

various muscles attached to the tailbone are important for ... keeping the entrance of the alimentary canal closed.

Uh, on MY body anyway, that particular portal is an EXIT. The entrance is at the end where the words come out.

[Inyo-Mono]

...many surgeons once removed even the healthy appendix whenever they were in the abdominal cavity.

Oh really? How many healthy ones have really been removed?

Many people who have had this bone removed have great difficulty sitting.

Show me how many people have had their tailbones removed, I would think that proceedure would be extremely rare.

...doctors generally agree that simple enlargement of tonsils is hardly an indication for surgery.

The key word here is "simple." Anyone who has had severely enlarged tonsils causing chronic illness would disagree.

[Disambiguator]

I had my tonsils out in '71. Maybe I should sue for malpractice now?

[youthgonewild]

This is Good News magazine, which is a bit behind Mad magazine in reality.

[Revolting cat!]

The best argument against evolution is that the Earth is 6,000 plus some change years old! Case closed.

[Revolting cat!]

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestigial virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed

[Dick Vomer]

I believe we were created by God in his image.

However this article is cr@p. Since when is removing a "healthy" appendix malpractice? In fact it is considered bad medicine to have 100% positive (infected/gangrenous) appendixes removed. It indicates that you've probably had a percentage of "missed" appendicitis which usually results in a suit.

Removal of the coccyx?..... uh-huh... like that's even done in any great numbers.

As far as removal of the tonsils, it isn't done "routinely" for anybody except ENT's that are shady. There are criteria for removal of tonsils and it isn't for "simple swelling".

This article is simplistic, stuff like this that makes Christians look like idiots/Luddites.

How about just faith? Meaning, I don't know how we came to be in this form. But I'll tell you how I came to know for a fact that there is a creator and that we just didn't happen.

I sat on the shore looking up at the stars and then my daughter sat in my lap. I looked at her ear. The swirl of the cartilage and then remembered the small bones within the inner ear that allow us to balance by sensing endolymph on microscopic hairs within 3 rings of canals within bones. Just the complexity and intricate balance of only ONE part of our body's multiple organ systems in relation to the immensity of the universe led me away from the "ball of gas", random protoplasm, single celled randomness, fish flopping onto the shore, humping rodents and monkeys with large frontal cortexes....etc, etc,etc.

Can I explain how it all came to pass.....nope. But I also don't bother crapping on scientists who observe the physical world. I just think that they aren't mutually exclusive.

If you do, then it's out of fear that your argument of faith in the creator is weak and you only wish to denigrate the scientists......or burn, torture and kill them as heretics.

I think that Christianity is not meant to be simple. With simple answers about matters of faith and the creation of man are left to children's stories. As adults we should be able to look at the physical world , marvel at the Lord's creation, and be inspired by his use of the palette of matter and energy.

One of my daughters said it best looking at a sunset over the water. "Look at what God did, isn't it beautiful." I had to agree with her.

[Hardastarboard]

The tonsils, long thought to be useless, are now known to have a useful function in the immune system. They act as a defense mechanism against infection of the upper respiratory tract and perform an important service to the digestive system by filtering out alien materials that may enter the body through the mouth or the nose.

I thought this was known for like the last twenty years.