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Baby with tail 'reincarnation of Hindu god' (with picture)
Ananova ^
| 01/11/02
| ananova
Posted on 01/11/2002 6:49:44 AM PST by Arkle
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posted on
01/11/2002 6:49:44 AM PST
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Arkle
To: Arkle
Does it wag when he's happy?
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posted on
01/11/2002 6:54:36 AM PST
by
MikeJ
To: Arkle
Hmm. I think there was an X-files episode with monkey-boy.
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posted on
01/11/2002 6:55:01 AM PST
by
techcor
To: Arkle; 2sheep; Thinkin' Gal ;veronica;dennisw;TrueBeliever9; Prodigal Daughter; Zadokite...
We can see the beginning of a joint religion in this if the Hindus worship a Muslim child..Even the heathens it seems will be part of the one world religion!
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posted on
01/11/2002 6:55:13 AM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: Arkle
Not much of a "tail", seems to be coming out of a "cheek" not from the base of the spine.....
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posted on
01/11/2002 6:58:08 AM PST
by
enraged
To: Arkle
Yeah....
These "people" are normal.....
Eaker
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posted on
01/11/2002 6:58:36 AM PST
by
Eaker
To: Arkle
Geeeeeez those folks are pretty backwards. Hope the child does get some corrective surgery for Spina bifada
To: RnMomof7
Is it me or does that 'tail' look like a really long finger? Although seemingly odd, this is not uncommon. It could also be a case of in utero canibalism, meaning that a woman originally conceived twins, yet one 'absorbs' the other, and shows remains from the other fetus. This case is a bit more uncommon...
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posted on
01/11/2002 6:59:51 AM PST
by
rintense
To: RnMomof7
I always thought the last vertabrae in a human spine were left-overs from a tail appendage? Sorta like the appendix? Left-over 'stuff'?
Poor kid.
To: RnMomof7
The joint religion will be called "Barnum and Baileyism".
To: rintense
It looks like a really long something.
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posted on
01/11/2002 7:00:45 AM PST
by
Arkle
To: Eaker
Can you add some baby laughter to your lil guy
To: Arkle
How sad! The parents let people pay to see this poor little boy? It makes me sick!
To: rintense
It looks like a finger to me too.The article does not say if it has independent movement or not. That takes shaking your finger at someone to a new level :>)
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posted on
01/11/2002 7:02:36 AM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: rintense
No, it's not just you! I thought it looked like a finger as well...
Man, that is one FAT baby!
To: Uncle George
LOL....Peta may have something to say about that!
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posted on
01/11/2002 7:03:40 AM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: rintense
Good one, I have read about this too. Let us hope this child is not caused any disability by leaving it there.
That is a helluva dingleberry.
To: Arkle; dighton
"recapitulating phylogeny" From another SOURCE:
"At birth some human babies have a short tail-like growth called a caudal appendage; located near the inferior end of the spinal column. While documenting the occurrence of such caudal appendages, Ledley stated the evolutionists bold claim about the supposed relationship of the caudal appendage to human origins:
"There is something seemingly unhuman about the presence on a human infant of a tail like the tails found on other primates. It is incongruous; it violates our sense of anthropocentricity, and it raises issues that involve not only teratology and embryology but also our view of ourselves and our place in evolution.
To evolutionists the human tail was an example of a reversion to a lower species and an illustration of the doctrine that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
The human tail serves as an example of modern concepts of ontogeny and phylogeny and presents a striking clinical confrontation with the reality of evolution.
Even those who are familiar with the literature that defined our place in nature-from Darwins The Descent of Man to Wilsons On Human Nature-are rarely confronted with the relation between human beings and their primitive ancestors on a daily basis. The caudal appendage brings this reality to the fore and makes it tangible and inescapable. Ledley (1982:1212, 1215)
The brief research portion of Ledleys paper (1982:1212) concerned the case report of a 7-pound baby that was born with a caudal appendage 2 inches in length. Shortly after it was born the child was transferred to Childrens Hospital Medical Center in Boston where doctors removed the growth. Ledley related that it was a . . . well-formed caudal appendage located near the end of the babys spine; . . . it was covered by skin of normal texture and had a soft fibrous consistency: Ledley also noted that there were no vertebrae or even cartilaginous elements in the so-called caudal appendage: Ledley included a helpful review of caudal appendage research. Such cases have been noted throughout history, but very few have been scientifically documented. The rest of Ledleys paper consisted of a bold defense of macroevolution involving ontogeny and comparative embryology."
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posted on
01/11/2002 7:09:21 AM PST
by
Orual
To: Arkle
wow, how perverse. There is not one sensible, loving, kind, helpful, true response to this unfortunate child's deformity among his people. It's all evil exploitation. The condition of the adults around him is more pathetic than his own.
To: techcor
Yeah, he kept himself busy making sure that his offspring numbered many.
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posted on
01/11/2002 7:10:06 AM PST
by
stanz
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