definition: “The standard definition of ‘vestigial’ is an organ that once was useful in an animal’s evolutionary past, but that now is useless or very close to useless. The list of vestigial organs in humans has shrunk from 180 in 1890 to 0 in 1999. Evidently to salvage this once-critical support for evolution, a new revisionistic definition of a vestigial structure is now sometimes used. This definition involves the idea that a vestigial organ is any part of an organism that has diminished in size during its evolution because the function it served decreased in importance or became totally unnecessary. This definition is problematic because it is vague and would allow almost every structure in humans to be labelled as vestigial.”
Lots of debate on this, but I guess I have to say that we do have a few and so do other animals. At the conclusion of the article:
“Evolutionists never have explained how and why so many structures could exist in humans (like the complex structures that enable music, song and dance) that confirm no survival advantage yet delight millions. Only creation can explain this observation. The clear conclusion is that the concept of evolutionary vestigial organs is useless, or largely speculative, and certainly is not good science.”
I do not think that organs that allow for song, dance and creativity like voice, limbs etc. are useless nor diminished by the definition of vestigial, but I am also assuming these folks are referring to an ‘organ’ called ‘imagination’ which would allow for sound and limb movement to be delightful…..but ‘imagination’ isn’t an organ so far as I know but rather part of the workings of the brain which IS a viable organ (in most of us) and which would not be vestigial. I think I may have just muddied up what I am trying to say.
Oh, I do NOT think eyelashes are vestigial either, they catch snowflakes and other flying stuff!!!
Anyway, how many USELESS organs do you have or THINK you have?
