Flawed design?

Question

Asking this mainly for those who dispute evolution. If there was an intelligent designer at work, why do we have appendixes (appendices?)? They serve no useful function to modern man. Likewise, why a coccyx? Why do our feet have a pinkie toe when no weight is distributed through them? Are these intentional flaws, like in a Persian rug? Oversights? Artistic flair?

Lbcentaur makes a pretty good point there; the majority of code in a DNA strand is 'garbage', random strings of nucleotides that contain absolutely nothing, like fragmented sectors on a hard disk. Why's all this empty space there? Room for firmware uprgades?

Who am I to judge what's 'flawed'? Why, I'm an end user. I've owned a late '72 human body for decades, and trust me, there wasn't a lot of focus group work done in the design stage, let alone a beta test. If a body part has no useful purpose, and for the purposes of this question we agree that no evolutionary process has taken place, why was it included?

Answer 1

Actually, the appendix probably has at least some function in the immune system (which is one reason it has a tendency to fill full of yucky stuff and get infected).

The big questions are more fundamental design flaws, like the totally screwed up eyeballs with floaty bits, blind spots and major software correction to compensate for the halfass way the sensory nerves are hooked up.

Or the way our food intake passage crosses over our air intake. Insects don't do that, why would we be designed so we can choke to death on our own food?

The whole single opening for intake and exhalation of air is pretty inefficient too. Imagine how much more efficient a bird's pulmonary system would be if they had a flow-through design like fish get.

And don't even get me started on the special kind of wisdom involved in having the excretory and reproductive systems share the same equipment.

If there was a Designer, he certainly wasn't any definition of Intelligent that I'm aware of.

Answer 2

Dissecting the frog will not give you the essence of frog only frog parts. Back to evolving within creation again for me.

Don't get stuck in the 'why' of things. They lead down the path to destruction. If 'why' moves things along, great. If not, and it's a stuck point, move on. More will be revealed - when, I don't know. That's almost a why.

'Course, up to a point, I don't dispute evolutionary process (Darwin was a Christian, but most don't really read him).

From my understanding, Persian rugs are intentionally flawed as are many indigenous rugs or work, in honor of the perfection of Creator. Man is not perfected yet, from this point of view. It also stops bragging 'my rug is better and more perfect than your rug' and jealousy and envy and theft, etc. They are all flawed and therefore all equal. :)

Answer 3

The appendix does have a use. See linked article from October of 2007.

If science only found out in 2007 that there was an actual use for the appendix, don't you think maybe there may be a use for the tailbone, but we just don't know it yet?

Which takes more faith to believe?

Option A) There is a God who created everything we see.

Option B) Something came from nothing.

Macro-Evolution, Darwin's theory that one species can evolve into another species, has no scientific backing.

Micro-Evolution is fact. There are species adaptations, such as the ones Darwin witnessed in the Gallapagos islands. But a finch with a long beak and a finch with a short beak are still both finches.

Micro-Evolution can take place within God's creation.

Macro-Evolution is man creating his own humanistic reason for how we got here, so he doesn't have to answer to anyone beside himself.

Answer 4

Maybe at one time the appendix was used for some function that is no longer needed. Just like the pinkie toe may have had some function too at one point.

However, I am a Catholic that recognizes that the modern theory of evolution is more than likely the origin of Humanity.

Answer 5

The Appendix Serves A Purpose - Read and Be Enlightened!

Answer 6

Another good one is, if we have an intelligent designer, why have more than one standardized steering wheel placement either on the left or the right side of a car? Why have more than one? Wouldn't one way be better?

Answer 7

Look at the human eye or DNA transcription. Both are so flawed that one would be insane to call these the product of an intelligent designer.

Answer 8

Many of the arguments bashing God here are certainly clever. But the fact remains that the best that humanity can do in making an artificial "human" is fairly ludicrous when compared to the real thing. If God was really so stupid and incompetent...why can't we even come close to duplicating His creations?

Just an observation...

Answer 9

i recently read a news article about new discoveries about the function of the appendix.

if you think you don't need a coccyx, have it removed. you will be in for the biggest shock of your life.

Answer 10

they used their appendix to digest things like tree bark etc. before the flood. and just cause we don't use them now doesn't mean they did not. and now you will say this proves evolution, you may be right but it only proves that we are not the same as early humans but we where still human.