If humans were created by "Intelligent Design", why do we have appendixes and wisdom teeth?

Question

What is the mystical plan behind these useless and often trouble-causing body parts?

Some people are born without appendixes or have them removed without any noticeable medical problems, while appendicitus is often fatal if untreated. This is not exactly optimal design, in my opinion.

Answer 1

actually i was thinking about this one earlier to put it across as a debate but .. i done a little study and it seems that the appendix is in use in the womb when a foetus is developing...
i was going to say the same about the tail bone .. and again found it to be in use in the womb in the child's development ..
the wisdom teeth is OK though lol couldn't find anything on that other than evolving .. so you still got one there to go with lol

Answer 2

because the so called vestigal organs all have an actual purpose
similar to the so called junk dna, its somethign we have not found the purpsoe yet

for the subject at hand, I'm afraid you are the victim of indoctrination the appendix is critical for the immune system

Your appendix ... it’s there for a reason
by Ken Ham and Carl Wieland

If you put your trust in evolutionary based publications like the 1997 Encyclopædia Britannica, you would think of your appendix this way:

The appendix does not serve any useful purpose as a digestive organ in humans, and it is believed to be gradually disappearing in the human species over evolutionary time. 1

However, even in 1976 medical textbooks were beginning to admit the appendix had functions:

The appendix is not generally credited with significant function; however, current evidence tends to involve it in the immunologic mechanism.2

And in a 1995 medical textbook, the authors are emphatic about the function of the appendix:

The mucosa and submucosa of the appendix are dominated by lymphoid nodules, and its primary function is as an organ of the lymphatic system.3

Despite this, many public school texts still continue indoctrinating people in the idea that the appendix is great evidence that man evolved. An evolutionist had the following testimony put into the record of the historic 1925 Tennessee Scopes Trial:4

There are, according to Wiedersheim, no less than 180 vestigal [sic] structures in the human body, sufficient to make of a man a veritable walking museum of antiquities. Among these [is] the vermiform appendix . These and numerous other structures of the same sort can be reasonably interpreted as evidence that man has descended from ancestors in which these organs were functional. Man has never completely lost these characters; he continues to inherit them though he no longer has any use for them.5

Thus, at one time evolutionists postulated there were 180 vestigial (functionless) structures (including the appendix) in the human body. Today this list has shrunk to virtually none. Imagine asking a doctor in 1925 to remove all these ‘functionless’ structures from your body!

Sadly, those brainwashed by the evolutionary idea that the appendix (and other organs) had no function included many Christians. This is yet another example of Christians being influenced by man’s theories outside the Bible. As the Bible is a revelation from the One who is infinite in knowledge and wisdom, then all of our thinking in every area should start with God’s Word.

see http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i1/appendix.asp

Answer 3

1. ID came from the evolutionist camp-not creationist.
2. Wisdom teeth and the appendix are useful parts of the body, those ideas have evolved since the 1950's. you should update your knowledge of human anatomy.

Answer 4

The appendix is used to store infection. If it gets too full, that's when you have problems. As far as wisdom teeth, some people don't have problems with them and they are left in to help them chew. But does it really matter?? Maybe when you see God, you should ask Him.

Answer 5

if humans were the result of evolution, how come all the ppl with wisdom teeth & appendix problems didn't get weeded out?

Answer 6

Don't forget tail bones, 99% DNA matches with chimps, and a family tree found in the fossil record.

Answer 7

i love it when people assume that there is no purpose for something just because they can't see it. hey, maybe God just did it to mess with YOUR head.
oh, and it doesn't speak so well for 'survival of the fittest' either, now does it? How come evolution didn't choose to eliminate 'useless and trouble-causing' those parts out of us?

Answer 8

Hey Kansas, Evolution ain't done yet.

Humans in 10,000 years will look and act quite differently.

That is if you christians and muslims haven't blown up the planet yet with your silly arguments about "my book was written by god' "no mine was" "no, mine was"

give me a break.

Answer 9

We have these organs to prove ID-iots wrong. If ID were correct, humans wouldn't have blind spots either. The big problem with ID is that it assumes that infallible God has to correct himself again and again.

Answer 10

evolution supports the presence of vestigial organs, an intelligent designer does not