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Scientists may have found appendix’s purpose (yet another organ objects to "vestigal" status)
MSNBC ^
| October 5, 2007
Posted on 10/08/2007 4:17:27 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Appendix may be useful after all
Seemingly useless organ may produce, protect good germs for your gut
The Associated Press
Oct 5, 2007
WASHINGTON - Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: appendix; creation; evolution; vestigalorgan; vestigalorgans
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To: GodGunsGuts
it seems much wiser principle these days to hang on to all your organs as long as you safely can, because they are there for a reason. Except it was the religious types who stole my foreskin.
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posted on
10/08/2007 6:10:15 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Moonman62
Amen!??!! It sucked when mine went toxic and about killed me. Very bad design indeed.
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posted on
10/08/2007 6:11:24 AM PDT
by
ExpatGator
(Extending logic since 1961.)
To: GodGunsGuts
That use is not needed in a modern industrialized society
In other words it's vestigial
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posted on
10/08/2007 6:15:42 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: shuckmaster
Given the obvious trouble you are having with your brain housing group, I have a feeling you are forced to guess about just about everything...from religion, science or how to tie your shoes.
To: GodGunsGuts
"vestigal" status First time I heard that phrase. Guess that makes me a "vestigal" virgin?
(Stop groaning!)
To: grjr21
LOL...classic example of typical Darwinist doublespeak.
To: raybbr
Next, he’ll be saying an illegal alien stole his appendix.
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posted on
10/08/2007 6:19:45 AM PDT
by
Betis70
(Da Whale)
To: stratboy
Did you put a reward out? :-) Sorry, couldn’t resist!
To: GodGunsGuts
CREATIONISTS RESPOND:
______________
Shouldn’t that read CREATIONIST (singular) RESPONSE? Or are you now speaking for all creationists?
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posted on
10/08/2007 6:28:55 AM PDT
by
dmz
To: dmz
I’m a Creationist, the CreationSafaris team are Creationists, and they are endorsed by thousands of Creationist that span the globe. Thus, the use of the plural is appropriate.
To: dmz
I’m a Creationist, the CreationSafaris team are Creationists, and they are endorsed by thousands of Creationist that span the globe. Thus, the use of the plural is appropriate.
To: Betis70
Next, hell be saying an illegal alien stole his appendix.THAT'S certainly possible.
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posted on
10/08/2007 6:51:14 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: GodGunsGuts
From the article:
The idea seems by far the most likely explanation for the function of the appendix, said Brandeis University biochemistry professor Douglas Theobald. It makes evolutionary sense. (emphasis added)
comment:
Apparently it made just as much evolutionary sense when the appendix had no function as it does to them now when it has a function.
Evolutionary theory can be made to explain almost anything, yet it predicts very little. This is a tipoff that it may not be science. Astrology explains a lot, but predicts little too.
I was not impressed when I read Darwins discussion of useless organs. He claimed that a useless organ would devastate his theory. He examined one that appeared useless, found a use, then established the prejudice that you will find a use if you look hard enough. As a fall back, if you still cant find a use, it should be assumed to be vestigial and to have once had a use. Basically, no matter what you find, Darwins theory rules. This is protecting a theory from evidence, another tipoff that it is not real science (as Karl Popper once concluded).
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posted on
10/08/2007 6:55:25 AM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(Reagan dismantled the Russian empire of 21 conquered nations)
To: GodGunsGuts
“Dont let the Darwinists try to steal glory for Charlie over this. Consider that Darwins theory held up medical research on these supposed vestigial organs for 100 years. Tonsils were routinely cut out of childrens throats under the assumption they were useless relics of our evolutionary past, only for the victims to discover it made them more susceptible to throat infections. Though you had better get an appendectomy if you get appendicitis, it seems much wiser principle these days to hang on to all your organs as long as you safely can, because they are there for a reason.”
It’s science that figured out what the organ is for, not some goofy creationist.
If the scientific assumption was they are useless relics, why did anyone spend one iota of time studying it?
To: raybbr
I heard that the appendix is/was helpful for digesting raw meat.
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posted on
10/08/2007 7:15:31 AM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
==Its science that figured out what the organ is for, not some goofy creationist.
Funny, I feel the exact same way about the Church of Darwin.
To: GodGunsGuts
My wife's was removed when she was young "since we're going to be in there."
Yes, ideas have consequences.
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posted on
10/08/2007 7:29:26 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: beejaa
“The subject of creationism should only be added as an appendix to this discussion.”
(APPLAUSE)
PUN of the YEAR AWARD goes to........ you!
: )
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posted on
10/08/2007 7:35:13 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(((Wi arr mi kidz faling skool ?)))
To: Red Badger
"He told me he was in a car wreck when he was a toddler and had an operation that removed his bellybutton" COOL!
My wife loves to watch those plastic surgery shows, and one had a fat lady who lost a ton of weight.
She had rolls of flab draped all over her, so they did a cut and paste job on her.
And they made a little hole were they pulled her bellybutton through and sewed it back in place.
I couldn't understand why they went through all that trouble.
I thought they should have just left it out.
My wife thought I was nuts.
Maybe she's right.
To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
I find it bizarre that a field of study that is almost entirely self-correcting is so denigrated. Instead of one its greatest strengths, it is seen as weakness.
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posted on
10/08/2007 7:58:32 AM PDT
by
dmz
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