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Vestigial Organs Questions and Answers

Key articles

• Argument: ‘Bad design’ is evidence of leftovers from evolution (from Refuting Evolution 2)
• ‘Vestigial’ Organs: What Do They Prove?
• The slow, painful death of junk DNA

Are there several organs in the human body that have no useful purpose?

• Badly designed arguments—‘vestigial organs’ revisited
• Do any vestigial organs exist in humans?
• Evolution and your surgeon
• Cutting out a useless vestigial argument
• Appendix: a bacterial ‘safe house’
• Human tails and fairy tales
• Are wisdom teeth (third molars) vestiges of human evolution?
• Is Our ‘Inverted’ Retina Really ‘Bad Design’?
• Fibre optics in eye demolish atheistic ‘bad design’ argument
• Male nipples prove evolution?
• More musings on our ‘useless’ appendix
• The plantaris and the question of vestigial muscles in man

What about structures in animals that seem to have no use? Is there ‘bad design’?

• Horse leg splint bones: useless leftovers or good design?
• Blind fish, island immigrants and hairy babies
• The panda thumbs its nose at the dysteleological arguments of the atheist Stephen Jay Gould
• Rats! A toothless argument for evolution
• Useless horse body parts? No way!
• Snakes with legs? A preliminary reply
• Leggy snakes

What about ‘Vestigial’ (‘junk’) DNA that evolutionists claim is a useless leftover of evolution?

• Living fossils and evolution, and does it matter if ‘junk DNA’ have functions?
• Splicing and dicing the human genome: Scientists begin to unravel the splicing code
• Astonishing DNA complexity uncovered
• Astonishing DNA complexity update
• DNA: marvellous messages or mostly mess?
• ‘Junk DNA’—Again!
• No joy for junkies
• Pseudogenes: are they non-functional?
• Potentially decisive evidence against pseudogene ‘shared mistakes’
• Pseudogene function: more evidence
• Large scale function for ‘endogenous retroviruses’

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