Why would the Creator endow us with an appendix?

Question

Seems like the only reason would be that he would like to see some of us needlessly suffer or die as children due to a ruptured appendix...

or that we are evolved from a species that actually used an appendix, which according to the Bible is obviously a wrong theory....

I'm at a loss here... help?

If everything in the body has a purpose due to intelligent design (the appendix's purpose being before birth), then what was the point of Jesus ever having a penis and testicles? Don't tell me it was too aim at the urinal!

Answer 1

You've obviously never been to the Church of Appendology?
"And the Lord spake, and he said unto the Man
'What are you doing back here? The flaming swords weren't clear anough? This is my garden now, get out before I lose my temper!'
'Ooh, I'm scared!" muttered the Man.
'What was that?'
'Nothing Lord' said the Man.
'Better not have been' said the Lord. 'So what are you doing here? I'm busy working on the dolphins'.
'Well I've been thinking about this....I found a whacking great fossilised jawbone just outside the garden, but you told me that all the creatures here were originals, so what's that about? Looks to me like there were creatures here before us...'
'Shuttup' said the Lord.
'No but seriously, if there were creatures here before us, then either you didn't make them, or you've been lying to me since day one, haven't you?'
'Day SIX, if you don't mind!' said the Lord unto the Man.
'So what's the Answer?'
And the Lord looked upon the Man whom He had made, and said
'You're really beginning to piss me off, ya know that?' and as He spoke, he flung some dirt at the Man, and it, being like unto the clay from which he came, became a part of him that had no earthly purpose, and the Lord said
'Because you are a creature made of questions, you shall carry them with you in your belly, and because I know all things, I know that children of your seed shall one day be the most vexing of things in all the world, and shall ask questions fit to stifle heaven. Because of this I tell you that sometimes, their questions will break free and rupture there within them, and I shall make you and all your kin wail at the pointlessness of questioning the Lord your God, now get your a*se out of here while you've still got gonads!'

And henceforth every man and every woman, and every child especially, has had an appendix full of questions, and if you ask too many awkward questions of the Lord your God, He will come to you in the night and burst your appendix wide open, in the spirit of everalsting love...Amen"

Answer 2

Good question!

The following excerpt is from http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i1/appendix.asp

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Creation Archive > Volume 20 Issue 1 > Your appendix ... it’s there for a reason


First published:
Creation 20(1):41–42
December 1997
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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.

Thinking Biblically about the appendix
Let’s assume that modern science knew of no function for the appendix. Would that show it was a useless left-over from our past evolution from the animals? Not at all. There would be at least two other possibilities, when our thinking is based upon the Bible:

It had a created function in people originally, but as a result of the Curse (consequent upon Adam’s sin) on all creation, humanity has degenerated. Thus, our body has lost some functions which it once had. Evolution requires a gain in information—new structures, new functions.

It has a created function, but we don’t know what it is yet.

Evidence of function
Today, the appendix is recognized as a highly specialized organ with a rich blood supply. This is not what we would expect from a degenerate, useless structure.

The appendix contains a high concentration of lymphoid follicles. These are highly specialized structures which are a part of the immune system. The clue to the appendix’s function is found in its strategic position right where the small bowel meets the large bowel or colon. The colon is loaded with bacteria which are useful there, but which must be kept away from other areas such as the small bowel and the bloodstream.

Through the cells in these lymphoid follicles, and the antibodies they make (see box below), the appendix is ‘involved in the control of which essential bacteria come to reside in the caecum and colon in neonatal life’.6 Like the very important thymus gland in our chest, it is likely that the appendix plays its major role in early childhood. It is also probably involved in helping the body recognize early in life that certain foodstuffs, bacterially derived substances, and even some of the body’s own gut enzymes, need to be tolerated and not seen as ‘foreign’ substances needing attack.

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see more of the article at http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i1/appendix.asp

Answer 3

The appendix is an organ whose purpose is yet debatable, but there are theories that it aids in digestion, in the endocrine system, and gastro-immune systems.

Just like a lot of things in the Bible, we are told to wait and be patient to find out the reasons for certain things. In this case, the actual, specific reason for the appendix. Although, by no means, is it a vital organ, or even 100% necessary, it has to have a purpose, or else God wouldn't have put it there in the first place.

Just like wisdom teeth and the pineal gland, things that were at one time considered useless and vestigal (ie a holdover from evolution), actually are found to have a legitimate purpose (wisdom teeth were there to replace the back teeth, which would normally have decayed by the age they appear; and the pineal gland makes melatonin which regulates the day/night cycle and boosts the immune system), the purpose of the appendix will one day be known.

...and just as wisdom teeth can cause excruciating pain when they appear (and occasionally form cysts around them when all doesn't go quite as planned), so too can the appendix rupture for any number of reasons. But that doesn't make either any less important in their functions.

Because our sinful existance causes misery, destruction, and death, we have to realize that God does not bring about this needless misery, as He wants all of us to know what it's like to live a perfectly healthy, eternal life, as He originally meant for things to be... but it is a by-product of the sin Adam and Eve committed so long ago.

As to Jesus having manly parts... well, He was perfect in all aspects, and since He is God born in the body of a *man*, and not an androgynous 'it', He got all the parts that belong to a man as well. It doesn't matter if He used them or not. I mean, I have a heel, but I choose to walk on my toes (as it's more comfortable for me, and always has been since day 1)... that doesn't mean I shouldn't have been born with a heel. It's there to make me whole and complete.

Answer 4

The appendix is actually a filter for the body. At one time... before we had fire and ways to purify water, the appendix would allow raw meat to be eaten and dirty water to be consumed without making someone sick. Matter of fact, the organ still functions in animals. That's whey they can drink out of the toilet or a mud puddle and not get sick.

Sorry... evolution did have something to do with the appendix and why it really doesn't function as it did a long time ago.

Answer 5

I think that before man learnt how to hunt and eat meat, we use to be herbivores. This also means that we might have had to eat shrubs and grass. To process all those kinds of greens we had an appendix. I may be wrong but I know we have not been evolved from any other species. Humans themselves have evolved , from being tall like giants to the size today.
btw dont you think it's better that we dont know the purpose of everything that we have? I think it makes us humble and makesus realize that we are still humans inferior to God :)

Answer 6

May be, appendix might have been an useful part of the large intestines of the man some millions of years ago. According to the theory of evolution, its utility might have been reduced and now it is found useless but trouble-making. We may gradually lose that part in the years to come, who knows! Anatomists couldn't fine any suitable name and hence they called it 'appendix'. Theory of rejection may be the reason here. Our posterity would be luckier to lose it. Nature only should answer!

Answer 7

actually this is one that bugged me for a time until i looked it up for the same question as this one
it seems that in the womb the appendix comes in to play and is no longer of any use once we are born
so it isn't an unnecessary organ

Answer 8

why can't u get the answer out of the bible? it has all the answers ,correct. ask god he has all the answers correct. the appendix was a filter in times past[as they believe] maybe it still is. collects the infection in the body &stores it in one place? but that is only conjecture.

Answer 9

He didn't. Obviously. It evolved and then became irrelevant once our lifestyles changed.

Answer 10

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."