If ID is to be believed, why do we have tailbones, and why do we have gill slits as fetuses?

Question

And how about tonsils?

What about genetic mutations that cause Downs? Mutation would be impossible if we were all designed to be as we are.

OK, sorry, pharyngeal pouches, not gill slits. Gill slits kind of rolls off the tounge better though.

Answer 1

Why is the human female's pelvis too narrow to accommodate the human infant's head? Prior to the 20th century, it was not unusual for women to die during childbirth for just this reason.

REAL intelligent design there.

(I won't even mention the male urethra passing through a gland which constricts it.)

Answer 2

Here is some useful information.

LIZARD TAIL—Well, that eliminates the "yolk sac." What about the "lizard tail?" Even though it looks like a "tail" in a human embryo—it later becomes the lower part of the spinal column in the child and adult. But why then is it so much longer in the embryo?

The spinal column is full of very complicated bones, and the total length of the spine starts out longer in proportion to the body than it will be later. This is just a matter of good design. There are such complicated bones in your spine that it needs to start out larger and longer in relation to the body. Later, the trunk grows bigger as internal organs develop.

But there is a second reason—the complex nerves in your spine: Scientists have recently discovered that another reason the spine is longer at first than the body is because the muscles and limbs do not develop until they are stimulated by the spinal nerves! So the spine must grow and mature enough that it can send out the proper signals for muscles, limbs, and internal organs to begin their growth. For this reason, the spine at first is bigger than the limbs, but later the arms and legs become largest.

Would you rather have your well-functioning backbone, knowing that, when you were tiny, it was slightly longer than the rest of your trunk? Or would you rather it had been the same size back then? If so, it would be degenerate now, and you would have to lie in bed all day. And the rest of your organs would never have developed properly. Come now, what is all this talk about "useless organs?" What organ could be more necessary than your spine!

FISH GILLS—The third item in the embryo that the evolutionists claim to be useless vestiges are, what they call, "gill silts" in the throat of each tiny human being. They say that these "slits" prove that we are descended from fish. But the theory, that people in their embryonic stage have gill slits, is something that knowledgeable scientists no longer claim. Only the ignorant ones do.

In the embryo there are, for a time, three small folds to be seen in the front of its throat. These three bubble outward slightly from the neck. Examining these folds carefully, we find no gills to extract oxygen out of water, and no gill slits (no openings) of any kind. These are folds, not gill slits! There are no slits and no gills. More recent careful research has disclosed that the upper fold contains the apparatus that will later develop into the middle ear canals, the middle fold will later become the parathyroids, and the bottom fold will soon grow into the thymus gland.

"The pharyngeal arches and clefts [creases] are frequently referred to as bronchial arches and bronchial clefts in analogy with the lower vertebrates, but since the human embryo never has gills called ‘bronchia,’ the term pharyngeal arches and clefts has been adopted for this book."—*Jan Langman, Medical Embryology, 3rd ed. (1975).

So once again the evolutionists are shown to be incorrect. For years they claimed that those three small throat folds were "gill slits," proving that we descended from fish; the bulb at the bottom of the embryo was a "yolk sac," proving that we descended from chickens; and the lower part of the spine is a "tail," proving that we are descended from lizards or something else with a tail!

The Tonsils. Here is one of those "worthless organs," which we now know to be needed. These two small glands in the back of your throat help protect you against infections.

Genetic mutations are inevitable. DNA polymerase is a high fidelity protein, but it is by no means perfect in a sense it will not make mistakes. This is the same with all cellular machinery.

Answer 3

There are many valid arguments against ID. But for accuracy, human embryos do not have gill slits. They have pharyngeal pouches (which were mistakenly referred to as gill slits over 100 years ago). A part of the flap of the pharyngeal pouch does become a gill in fish. Pharyngeal pouches trace a morphological ancestry to Paleozoic amniotes. In amniotes the pharyngeal pouch becomes feeding orifice.

Answer 4

God designed us perfectly, then we decided we could do a better job then he did and went our own way and looked what happened, we blame God for our mistakes.

as for gill slits, good one, i met a guy who had gill slits, he was a firm believer in the evolutionary theory, sorry, he could not convince me...we were created to dominate over all the creatures of the earth and sea, no other creature can dominate as many as we do, nor do they build communities as we do, or reason things out. No other animal, bird or fish are related to all others like we are related to them, because that is the way God designed us.

Peace be with you :)

Answer 5

The best argument against intelligent design is the fact that the designer put the recreation area (genitals) right next to the sewer (anus).

No Intelligent designer would ever do that....Ick.

Answer 6

i have never heard about having gills before are you sure? I thought in the womb were getting oxygen out of the fluids but using our lungs not gills.

Answer 7

The eyes of blind fish and a whale's hip bones would need to be designed too.

Answer 8

It's alludes the creationists that if we were designed, the universe would have done a much better job ; )