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To: Aquinasfan
Remember how the appendix was considered a "vestigial organ"?

Perhaps before you mock you should look up the definition of "vestigial organ".

77 posted on 11/20/2007 12:15:42 PM PST by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: ahayes
Perhaps before you mock you should look up the definition of "vestigial organ".

Please.

Vestigiality describes homologous characters of organisms which have lost all or most of their original function in a species through evolution... Vestigial structures are often called vestigial organs, although many of them are not actually organs. These are typically in a degenerate, atrophied, or rudimentary condition,

Wikipedia

Did I miss anything? This definition does NOT fit the human appendix. Read the CNN article. And thanks for the trip down high school biology BS memory lane.

"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all." --Paul Simon

81 posted on 11/20/2007 12:20:50 PM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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