Evolution provides a logical reason for vestigial structures, what is the Creationist explanation?
2006-07-11 06:08:23 · 15 answers · asked by Kenny ♣ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are new theories that claim the appendix may have some use in the immune system. It hasn't been proven yet, but the creationists are running with it.
It probably has less use than tonsils though and how many of us still have them?
2006-07-11 06:11:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Pinky toes have been found to be vestigial. Why do I have a pinky toe?
God made us in his image. maybe God had an appendix?
The fact of the matter is, while I believe in creation of life, I also believe to some extent in evolution. I think that the book of Genesis is a mass oversimplification of the creation of life and the universe. I think the whole thing is some kind of metaphor for something that Moses, who authored the book of Genesis, didn't quite understand. Either way, what do you think the appendix evolved from, a gizzard?
Atheists are really hostile, just look at some of the answers to your question. I wouldn't want to identify myself with any group that appears to be filled with so much hate.
2006-07-11 13:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by Hunter S. Thompson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your starting point is in error making your straw-man tip over a bit too quickly. Just because God is perfect doesn't mean that God confers perfection to his creations and certainly doesn't mean God confers it individually (though it does make for a darned impressive ecosystem on the whole which is part of why people are constantly amazed by wasps labotomizing grubs for their young or the fact that the platypus is, in fact, yet another venomous animal of Australia). Really, if "God's Design is perfect" means that humans should be perfect with no wasted or leftover bits or limitations, then who designed the earthworm? And why am I wearing contact lenses?
And if you're looking for an A versus B point of contention, then why aren't we lichen? One would think that life would've noticed the vast quantity of complexly evovled species that have died out over the course of reality and been working on de-volving into a more ruggedized state of life that can handily survive gobal warming/cooling, solar radiation and the occasional asteroid impact, instead of typing up responses to silly metaphysical questions on Yahoo! Answers.
Though the one thing I really do like about evolution is that it does speculate that someday, just by sheer statistical chance against improbability, all of us monkeys on Yahoo! Answers may someday come up with the script for Hamlet...
SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.
FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO
BERNARDO
Who's there...
2006-07-11 13:25:29 · answer #3 · answered by kiezkahse 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Creationists don't have to explain anything - they just say God made it that way and burn you at the stake if you question anything too closely.
Thats the beauty of mindlessly following some fool's interpretation of a book written thousands of years ago - all that effort and energy that you would otherwise waste on THINKING can be saved
2006-07-11 13:14:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know... I believe 100 percent in evolution..
Or maybe.. some unknown reason.. the appendix will become something useful.. like a leg..
2006-07-11 13:11:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No testable predictions can be derived from the creationst explanation.
Creationism has not made a single contribution to agriculture, medicine, conservation, foresty, pathology, or any other applied area of biology.
Creationism has yielded no classifications, no biogeographies, no underlying mechanisms, no unifying concepts with which to study organisms or life.
2006-07-11 13:55:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Primitive man needed an appendix to kill germs and bacteria in uncooked food. Now that we burn our food before cooking and over hundreds of years of evolution, our appendix has grown smaller, due to its lack of use.
2006-07-11 13:16:20 · answer #7 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a appendix for the reason that if you fell on you side and it blew up and had to removed it you would have a SEXY scar to chat about...God knows what he's doing
2006-07-11 13:14:58 · answer #8 · answered by starjessiegirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I'm not a Creationist...but God gave us a brain too...and they sometimes go bad...just like appendixeseseses.
2006-07-11 13:13:16 · answer #9 · answered by 4999_Basque 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no legitimate creationist explaination. They all say the same thing, either "**** you" or "you haven't discovered what it does yet".
All creationists, get over yourselves and your happy little delusions.
2006-07-11 13:15:25 · answer #10 · answered by McGeezy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋