Quote:Meh, that's kind of a typical response used by Evolutionists when one of their own marches out of step. "Well the Journal he was published in was not really that great", or "Just because he disagrees does not prove anything" or even, "That's not what he meant when he said that". Unfortunately all three of those approaches are used in this talkorigins article. Fact of the matter is, there are less "vestigial" organs and structures today than there were in the past and creationists have found functions for every example evolutionists try and use. They are not good evidence for common descent. It's an out-dated argument and it should die off along with the pepper moth one.
If you had actually read the article in its entirety, you wouldn't be responding with an argument that "creationists have found functions for every example evolutionists try and use", since, as was aptly pointed out via numerous sources, a vestigial organ doesn't have to be functionless to be vestigial. And yes, in fact, the some journals are better than others with regard to peer review, so the argument as to the journal that carried the paper is a valid one. Not all scientific journals are equal. If his article was actually a big deal in science circles, he'd have gotten it published in Science or Nature.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
