Creationists, can you explain these?

Why do humans have useless hair (e.g., on legs and arms)?

Why do humans have a coccyx (i.e., a tailbone)?

Why do humans have wisdom teeth?

Why do humans have an appendix?

Heck, why do some humpback whales have leg bones found in their bodies?

Why do flightless birds have wings?

Why is God so imperfect? Is he screwing around having fun, or what? If he's NOT imperfect, then why all the imperfections?

Creationists, can you explain these?

I think creationists have proved that they cannot supply rational argument to support their belief.

One prominent creationist who I can't be bothered to name was thrown out of court once because of his total lack of knowledge of the facts of the world.

Creationists, can you explain these?

Good question. I believe in evolution, so I am going to star your question and see the answers. I think that something sparked life on Earth many millions of years ago, and evolution took place. It is scientific and there is no way to disprove it otherwise.

Creationists, can you explain these?

1. in past times people used to enjoy the smell of sweat and it got their hormones up.

2. it is necessary for a lot of things, check out Dr. Hovand. (not sure on spelling)

3. they can come in pretty handy. what, you would rather have no teeth.

4. it is not necessary but helps the immune system to fight of sickness.

5. those aren't legs but just tools for mating.

6. they have wings for other uses. penguin for swimming, etc.

7. he is perfect and there are no imperfections except for our sin. and that came because of Satan after the creation.

now a question for you. why not do some research before you make those kind of claims?

Creationists, can you explain these?

My favorite "Bloody Stupid Design" example is sickle cell anemia.

The gene that produces this also provides resistance to malaria. But if you end up with a double copy of the gene then you will die from sickle cell anemia.

This produces a few questions:

First, why produce a resistance to a disease that, under certain conditions, can kill you? Any designed resistance would not have this effect.

Since malaria exists across the tropical areas of the world why is it that only Africans have this resistance? Were Asians and Central American natives an earlier design that did not have this feature?

And why not everyone? Did the designer not realise that Europeans might travel to tropical climates? Why not put this design into their genetics, just in case.

It is only in the light of an evolutionary process that this makes any sense:

Africans evolved this resistance after the people that migrated and became Asians and American natives had left.

Sickle cell anemia does kill people, but in tropical climates it saves more from malaria than it kills, to it is a positive evolutionary trait.

For Europeans who rarely get exposed to malaria it is a negative evolutionary trait as it will kill more than it saves.

Creationists, can you explain these?

I don't consider myself a "creationist" in the strictest sense, but I do believe we were created... I think I can attempt to answer a couple of your questions...

1) Those who believe in the Genesis creation account would say that Adam and Eve did not wear clothes, so hair on the arms and legs would help keep the extremities warmer, with thicker patches under the arms and in the pubic region where the body loses the most heat.

2) The tailbone does serve a purpose... it helps with rigidity and stability, and it also serves as another layer of protection to the spinal cord. If you've ever fallen hard on your tuckus you should know what I mean :0)

3) and 4) I can't answer you specifically about the purpose of wisdom teeth and the appendix, except to speculate that when mankind was created perfectly, they had a purpose, but as mankind has moved further and further from perfection, that purpose was lost.

Here is where I (and there are probably many like me) may differ from a "creationist". I think that God created humans uniquely, and that he created a relatively small group of animals that had the remarkable ability packed into their dna to "evolve", if you will, into the vast array of animals we have today.

In my mind (warped as it can be at times) the cycle of animals evolving and becoming extinct makes perfect sense. I believe if Adam and Eve had not sinned, they would still be here. Earth would be populated by perfect humans who would never die. And perhaps by this time earth would be close to capacity and who knows.. perhaps another planet could be terraformed for habitation. If the plant and animal species on earth were static, it could feasibly get a little boring after you've studied them all. But if after a million years or so, new species started to appear, wouldn't that be interesting?

And, yes, God does have fun with his creations. Just look at the platypus :0)

I feel a little silly for having to ask, but what significance does "crocoduck" have, and how does it relate to my comment? I've heard the term a lot on this forum, but not sure what it refers to...?

Creationists, can you explain these?

Why is hair useless? I appreciate the hair on my legs and arms on a cold day. Why do we have wisdom teeth? I chew with mine. Why do we have an appendix? It provides chemicals that I need. God is perfect. He made me the way I needed to be.

Creationists, can you explain these?

So that you can ask the silly questions. You are not happy for all the things that are " perfect"...you are looking these "imperfect" things...You tell me why all things evolved?

God is perfect. But how do you know because you even do not believe in Him. You are ridiculing something you do not even believe in, what gives?

He made you to be the way He wanted you to be.

Creationists, can you explain these?

1. Human body hair, which covers almost the entire body, has a functional advantage over other mammal hair in that it has a high degree of touch perception, which occurs when a hair is moved or bent. Due to the nerves at the base of the hair, we know when a hair is being moved via our nervous system. R. Harris, in 1982 supplied examples of why this would be beneficial. Examples included the ability to tell if a small insect is crawling across your skin, which would be a great benefit especially if the insect is potentially dangerous.

Other human hair plays important roles as well. Such as the hair on top of your head that covers the spot where about 40% of heat dissipates. This is a great retainer to keep needed heat within the body. If you don鈥檛 fully understand, shave your head sometime and run around in the snow. Fine body hair also plays an important role by extending the boundary layer. The boundary layer is a small and still layer just above any surface. This is demonstrated when cumulative dust on top of a car doesn鈥檛 blow off completely when the car is traveling.

Not only is body hair useful for containing heat, it鈥檚 also useful for cooling the body. When you perspire, or sweat, the hairs grasp the sweat and keep it near you. This will keep your body cooled. Notice also that man has more body hair then women, usually lol. This is because man, being larger, sweats more and thus requires more cooling -- even more evidence of our wonderfully designed vessels. Also each hair shaft lies within a follicle. Near the base of the follicle is a tiny muscle. When the muscle contracts, the hair functions like a lever, squeezing a sebaceous gland near the follicle, which deposits an oily substance (sebum) into the upper layer of the skin. This oily secretion helps keep the skin pliable, and also serves as a waterproofing material. Body hair is hardly useless.

2. The human coccyx is the attachment point of nine muscles that allow for a number of movements, most important of which is for the act of defecation. Evolutionists should ask Ashley Murry of Wilmington, Delaware if she agrees with their conclusion that a coccyx is unnecessary. This young woman will be forced to wear a diaper for her entire life because she was born without a coccyx. It is unlikely that she would be very supportive of their contention.1 Another important use of the coccyx is that it assists us in the act of sitting. It is not impossible to sit without one, but it is awkward and uncomfortable. Furthermore, the coccyx helps to support certain internal organs.

3. Removal of wisdom teeth has become commonplace in western countries.

Based on evolutionary training, many dentists assume that wisdom teeth are "vestigial," useless evolutionary left-overs from our simian ancestry when jaws

A troubling fact has been noted, that in America's former years, people had plenty of room for all their teeth. Even today in non-western societies, a greater percentage still have plenty of room. Does this mean that only Americans are evolving? Are other factors involved?

Professor, Dr. Jack Cuozzo (an orthodontist), has evidence that humans today may be maturing faster than in yesteryear, and our facial bones lack sufficient growth time before wisdom teeth come in. This may be due to growth hormones in food or change since the time of Adam, but room is lacking in many people.

Others cite evidence that a western diet and habits are the cause. In western societies we eat cooked carrots and tenderized beef, whereas diets in other countries demand more rigorous chewing. Actually, in all countries throughout all time diets have been more rigorous with the resulting exercise of the jaw muscles producing greater jaw size and strength. A recent article in a dental journal encouraged mothers to give their children bubble gum to chew (sugarless, of course) in hopes that jaws would grow and teeth would come in straight.

Still others cite poor nutrition and improper hygiene as a cause of gum and bone disease which can force wisdom teeth to erupt in an impacted position. Some studies point at improper sleeping position in infants with continual side or belly sleeping molding the soft facial bones into abnormal shape. The teeth themselves are evidently not the problem.

Recent dental guidelines specify that dentists use caution in recommending removal of wisdom teeth. In many patients the problem is real and must be addressed, perhaps by surgery, but in others, minor manipulation and care can often save healthy teeth.

As far as evolution goes, how can it be said that loss of a useful feature, or loss of room for that feature demonstrates evolution? This is the opposite of evolutionary development! How much better if evolution could explain the origin of structures, not their loss.

And how much misery has unnecessarily been caused by the indiscriminate application of wrong-headed evolutionary thinking. From a creationist viewpoint, wisdom teeth are valuable gifts from the Creator and should not be removed if healthy.

4. If you're a baby boomer (or earlier) you've no doubt been presented in high school and college the story of the alleged lack of function of our appendix. Instructors called it 鈥?and continue to call it 鈥?"degenerate" or "rudimentary" 鈥?a nonfunctional vestige of evolution that modern man no longer needs.

The appendix is now recognized to play an important role in the immune system, particularly in childhood. We can survive without it, but clearly it is a useful, functioning organ, and we are better off to keep it. If your appendix is taken-out I believe ones life span will be shorten approximately 8 to ten years. There are times when it can get blocked or infected, and must be removed, but if healthy, it's best left in place.

Recently, evolutionary activists are strangely silent regarding their insistence of the non-function of the appendix. There could be several reasons for this, but perhaps the best is that scientific research has indeed revealed an important function. Other organs or features once thought to be "useless" include as you said wisdom teeth, tonsils, the thymus gland, the "tail bone," the little toe . . . would a person be better off without these? Of course not! Does their presence prove evolution? Hardly.

The gallbladder serves as a bridge between the liver (which produces bile necessary for the digestion of fats) and the small intestine, where the digestion occurs. The gallbladder stores the bile and parcels it out as needed. If the bladder is removed, it doesn't impair the production of needed bile, only its concentration and timed release into the small intestine. Dilute bile merely oozes in continually. A person can function quite adequately without the gallbladder under normal conditions, but it's better to keep it.

The wise Creator God designed our bodies to cope under a variety of circumstances. Ever since sin entered the perfect creation and all systems began to deteriorate, sometimes things don't perform optimally. Thankfully there are back-up systems for many organs, like the gallbladder. The Creator intended us to survive in this fallen world, and here we see the evidence.

Whenever we hear words like "that's a useless organ," we should recognize them as a product of evolutionary thinking. Often such claims are merely repeats of foundless evolutionary tales heard since elementary school.

The Creator designed things well鈥攏othing is useless. Even if an organ becomes "useless," we can be confident that it was once good, and even if we can't find its present function we can be sure it has (or had) one. The same could be said for organs and structures in plants and animals. God doesn't make junk, and that's the truth.

Evolutionists believe that whales have leftover vestigial pelvises that indicate they evolved from another type of creature. However, even assuming that the evolutionists were correct about this, this would mean that at some point the hypothetical land mammal would not have been able to survive on land or in water. In order for an animal, such as a dog, to evolve into a whale, it would need to get rid of its pelvis.

This means that, at some point, the creature wouldn鈥檛 have a tail suitable for aquatic life, and wouldn't have legs suitable for living on land. It would be handicapped in the wild and would be extremely vulnerable to predators.鈥ㄢ€⊿o what of these 鈥渧estigial pelvises鈥?found in whales?

These structures simply aren鈥檛 pelvises at all. In fact, they aren鈥檛 even vestigial. These 鈥減elvises鈥?are different in the males and females and play an important role in sexual reproduction. Of all things evolutionists want to claim are vestigial, there鈥檚 probably nothing more important to the whale鈥檚 ongoing survival!