(January 13, 2016 at 10:07 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:(January 13, 2016 at 9:51 pm)AAA Wrote: It cultivates bacteria to aid in digestion. You don't need it, but it does serve functions with digestion and immune health.
Given the opportunity to redesign things, All the engineers who have ever lived couldn't do a better job.
I'd like you to consider how many people throughout history have died very painful deaths for no other reason than that an organ that they didn't need in the first place became infected.
The number of people that died from infections of impacted wisdom teeth (because we have a gene for more teeth than out jaws can handle, an atavism from our ancestors with bigger jaws), dwarfs the number of people that died from appendicitis.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
