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.
The article's intent was to show that the the organs used were widely considered "vestigial" organs evolutionists. They believed, and taught generations to believe, and sometimes still teach, that these organs only had a function in the evolutionary past and really have no functions today.
Nitpicking out percentages of or removals of these organs doesn't change the premise of the article.