Intelligent design? Really?

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Touché - but we can live without our spleen and our appendix without any obvious adverse effects. No loss of functionality.

Having an appendix, like having legs, increases our chances of survival. Specialists have already found that the appendix helps prevent serious infections. Before modern antibiotics huge numbers of humans died from such things.

I just think that based on what we now know, the appendix should not be used as an example of a badly "designed" human body. It appears to be hugely beneficial to our survival before modern day medical aid.

Well that spurred a bit of research and it appears you are correct:



http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...tion-of-t/

Who knew?

Still - not a great design - its a walking time-bomb.