As 4-week-old embryos, we all grow a tail, complete with bone structure and cartilage and so on. Normally this is re-absorbed after a few more weeks, although in rare cases a baby can be born with an atavistic tail. The genes within us which cause us to grow a tail are the same genes which cause tails to grow in other primates which do normally have tails as adults.
So... this is consistent with humans being related to other primates by common descent, sharing the same tail-forming genes, slightly modified by mutation so that they are no longer normally expressed in us.
What's the creationist explanation for the human tail?
2007-12-14 13:08:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God built on the basic design for life and was creative ... if u were building ever more increasingly complex machines the more advanced ones would carry some of the traits of the ones that came before ... its really not any proof or argument ..
2007-12-14 13:13:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 8⤋
If you think the “tail bone” is useless, fall down the stairs and land on it. What happens? You can’t stand up; you can’t sit down; you can’t lie down; you can’t roll over. You can hardly move without pain. In one sense, the sacrum and coccyx are among the most important bones in the whole body. They form an important point of muscle attachment required for our distinctive upright posture (and also for defecation. So again, far from being a useless evolutionary leftover, the “tail bone” is quite important in human development. True, the end of the spine sticks out noticeably in a one-month embryo, but that’s because muscles and limbs don’t develop until stimulated by the spine .. As the legs develop, they surround and envelop the “tail bone,” and it ends up inside the body. Once in a great while a kid will be born with a “tail.” But is it really a tail? No, it’s just a bit of skin and fat that tells us, not about evolution, but about how our nervous systems develop. The nervous system starts stretched out open on the back. During development, it rises up in ridges and rolls shut. It starts to “zipper” shut in the middle first, then it zippers toward either end. Once in a while, it doesn’t go far enough, and that produces a serious defect. Sometimes it rolls a little too far. Then the baby will be born, not with a tail, but with a fatty tumor. It’s just skin and a little fatty tissue, so the doctor can just cut it off. It’s not at all like the tail of a cat, dog, or monkey that has muscle, bones, and nerve, so cutting it off is not complicated. So far as I know, no one claims that proves we evolved from an animal with a fatty tumor at the end of its spine.
2016-04-09 03:48:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans don't have tails. Or gills, although I wouldn't mind a bit if I could breathe underwater...
Here's a thought.
How does an art critic know a real Picasso from a fake?
How does a music critic know Mozart from Beethoven?
Isn't it true that one can know that a certain sculpture is the work of a particular artist by the details in that sculpture?
Why cannot God, Who is an artist, also use the same technique on His various works of art?
Now, me, personally, I don't know if "evolution is a fact" or not. I don't believe there is enough REAL evidence to prove it yet.
But it doesn't really matter.
In the end, the only thing that REALLY matters (to me, anyway) is that "Godidit"....
2007-12-14 13:26:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am not a creationist, I think, but i thought it was soo cool when I learned it in high school biology. If you do take a look at our dna we have dna from every species. Some people have more of one than another. My husband and step-son have a healing factor. My husband has actually regrown artieries, vessels, fingertips. He has more reptilian dna.
I don't know if we evolved from apes, chimps, or what.
I do believe all of creation came from a promordial ooze.
I find it fascinating and one of the wonders and complexities of life.
2007-12-14 16:05:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's to keep you humble, when you fall and sprain it or break it(the tailbone, anyway). Believe me, when you have to move carefully for months and visit the chiropractor, you appreciate good health a heck of a lot more. Really, I haven't studied this issue before.
2007-12-14 15:42:28 · answer #5 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a true believer in Christ, I believe that God can make us as similar or as different to other species as He so desires. Dealing specifically with the "human tail", since except in rare cases it disappears (and even we humans consider that situation to be a mutation), it must not have any significance for our existance as humans, otherwise God who have it continue to grow as we do.
2007-12-14 13:22:39 · answer #6 · answered by Leonard D 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
And some people are born with 3 leg,s or 3 eye,s
none of my family were born with a tail nor has anyone
I have ever known ,the tail you speak of grow,s into
our spine,s.
2007-12-14 13:22:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
It is significant in that God has a tail, too... This is because he created us in his own image...
It doesnt signify that we came from monkeys...
2007-12-14 13:38:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
These answers are gems for the book. Thanks for asking this question.
Now I have the title too! "Creationists' Tails"
2007-12-14 13:21:21 · answer #9 · answered by Petrushka's Ghost 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good point my friend but you can't change the way of thinking of a person that believe by blind faith.
2007-12-14 13:19:12 · answer #10 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋