RE: The Argument From Design
August 5, 2011 at 7:14 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2011 at 7:22 am by Anymouse.)
(August 2, 2011 at 1:07 pm)ElDinero Wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21153898/
Actually, the appendix has been found to have a function. When the body sends the gut into "flush mode," the appendix closes off and preserves a portion of the flora and fauna of the gut, then releases it back into the gut afterward. This allows the body to quickly repopulate its flora and fauna.
This also explains why people that have had appendectomies seem to have more troubles in this area than those who have not, such as me.
And as for gallbladders, while one can live without it, it is not "easy," as anyone who has to maintain the special low fat diet that goes with its removal, like my sweetie here BethK can attest.
And one can live without both kidneys, but that isn't easy either, as long as you like dialysis every couple of days.
Just keeping up with scientific knowledge. You never know, they might find why we have a tailbone next.
Rather than showing things that "prove" we were not "designed," that may turn out to have a use later (like the appendix), it might be better to simply debunk the ID proposition itself.
James.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
