When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?

[The Valkyrie]

The appendix is vestigial and likely adapted in its function as humans evolved.  Yes, it likely may serve a minor function in that it stores healthy bacteria and plays a part in the immune system.  That is still being debated by medical researchers.

We likely shed our ability to breathe underwater because such a function was no longer needed as we spent more and more time out of the water and became a fully land based mammal.  Why keep a function we would barely use?

And, I won't say that if we *were* designed then that design was evil.  But it was certainly incompetent.

Ok, well if we agree it has a function, then why are you still calling it vestigial? 

"Why keep a function we would barely use?" Why would we lose a function that we sometimes would use? I understand why we would lose our ability to breathe underwater, but it was more of a point to the other person who was wondering why we don't have the ability to restore limbs.

I don't think the design is incompetent, I think that people just say that because they think it makes them seem smarter, like they could do a better job. As though all the engineers who ever lived could have done a better job if they all got together.

Note the usage of the term "it likely serves a minor function".  At this stage that's still uncertain.  And, it's certainly not a vital organ even IF it serves such a function.  Hence, vestigial until proven to still serve a function.

Why would we keep a function that we don't use or MAY use rarely?

Why do people defend a supposedly "all powerful, all knowing designer" when it's clear to anyone with a basic knowledge of evolution that the "design" of the human animal is flawed at best?  I think they do it just so they can appear smart to themselves or others with the same level of understanding.

Could humans design a better human?  At this stage, with our limited knowledge, no.  But there are breakthroughs in the fields of medical science, biology, and genetic engineering virtually every other week.  Hell, I just got back from a conference that brought to our attention the latest breakthroughs in my professional field and some future developments that my professors would have said was science fiction only a few years back.

Watch this space.

However, the flaws in the "design" of the human animal fit perfectly with the evolutionary models we have.