A boost for evolution(well in opposition to the design)?

Question

Has anyone heard of humans being born with tails? I heard this phenomenon happens when ancestrial traits suddenly reappear after thousands,even millions of years. Do you believe this somehow proves or bolsters the case for evolution? I think this challenges the creationist idea that every living species emerged in its present form

Answer 1

Ummmmmmm..........

I have never heard of this............... so I had to google it!

Human tails
Human embryos have a tail that measures about one-sixth of the size of the embryo itself. As the embryo develops into a fetus, the tail is absorbed by the growing body. The developmental tail is thus a human vestigial structure (an atavism). Infrequently, a child is born with a "soft tail", which contains no vertebrae, but only blood vessels, muscles, and nerves, although there have been a very few documented cases of tails containing cartilage or up to five vertebrae. Modern procedures allow doctors to eliminate the tail at delivery. The longest human tail on record belonged to a twelve-year-old boy living in what was then French Indochina, which measured nine inches (229 mm).[1] A sound case is that of a man named Chandre Oram who was born in India and has been famous because of his 13-inch tail. Nonetheless, it is believed it is not a true tail but a case of spina bifida.

Humans have a tail bone (the coccyx) attached to the pelvis, in the same place which other mammals have tails. The tail bone is formed of fused vertebrae, usually four, at the bottom of the vertebral column. It doesn't protrude externally, but retains an anatomical purpose: providing an attachment for muscles like the gluteus maximus.

*** so I think it is not a boost for evolution

Answer 2

Human embryos have a tail that measures about one-sixth of the size of the embryo itself. As the embryo develops into a fetus, the tail is absorbed by the growing body. The developmental tail is thus a human vestigial structure (an atavism). Infrequently, a child is born with a "soft tail", which contains no vertebrae, but only blood vessels, muscles, and nerves, although there have been a very few documented cases of tails containing cartilage or up to five vertebrae. Modern procedures allow doctors to eliminate the tail at delivery. The longest human tail on record belonged to a twelve-year-old boy living in what was then French Indochina, which measured nine inches (229 mm).[1] A sound case is that of a man named Chandre Oram who was born in India and has been famous because of his 13-inch tail. Nonetheless, it is believed it is not a true tail but a case of spina bifida.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail

Answer 3

i'm with you on area of this. I relatively have books appropriate to the evolution of dinosaurs and noah's ark. Noah is an marvelous tale. identity is closer to technological awareness than YEC-- youthful earth creationism. itemizing to important identity propoents like Michael Behe you hear strategies that the international is purely as previous as evolution says and that creatures slowly replaced over the years. i do no longer think of real creation literalists like the functional layout crowd as a results of fact identity looks to compromising. yet identity claims there is scientific foundation for their theistic claims, which isn't so. The "scientific" claims that identity makes for "proving" their could desire to be a deity (and usually in case you get them speaking, Yahweh and Jesus) do no longer delay in relatively scientific debate. So theistic evolution (believing there's a place for a God in evolution yet we can't in all possibility define it) is distinctive than identity as a results of fact it at would not write assessments it can't funds. identity could additionally purely be a wedge physique of recommendations, people who somewhat have faith in a quick earth creation utilizing it to permit some version of creation into faculties and then they are going to substitute what that version is later.

Answer 4

ID is somehow a form of science, so the IDiots who promote is say, but not enough a form of science to bother with evidence. The fact that you have presented one of th hundreds of possible forms of evidence against it, IDiots won't listen.

Answer 5

So? How is that in opposition to design? Does a creature having a tail prove that it hasn't been designed because it has a tail?

Bit non-sequitor if you ask me.

Answer 6

I suppose it could. But the fact that we all have tail bones despite our lack of a tail...

Answer 7

itz true! (really is!) evry1 has a tail bone. of course, some hav biggr 1s. n science has proved that mankind has evolved from monkeys/primates. thatz why 4some of us, they look lyk MONKEYS! X D!
oh, n evry livng thng has evolvd from unicelld organisms. idk where THEY came from!

Answer 8

I'm not sure about it.