“Vestigial” Organs
The Appendix: Useless Vestige?
The appendix has long been maligned as an obsolete vestigial remnant of digestive evolution. Is it really as worthless as people say, or does it have a purpose after all?
Vestigial Organ Arguments: Useful or Unnecessary?
Do humans really still have 9 Useless Body Parts? From a biblical view accepting God as Creator, we understand vestigial structures are indeed vestiges—“footprints”—but not of a hypothetical, unwitnessed, unproven evolutionary origin. Vestigial structures are actually the “footprints” of embryology and the “footprints” of the efficiently engineered designs of our common Designer, God.
Vestigial Salmon Adipose Fin Actually Useful
Another so-called vestigial organ finds a function. Marine biologists have long thought the “adipose fin” on the back of some fish was vestigial. Located between the dorsal and tail fins, the small adipose fin is often clipped by hatcheries to track the salmon they produce. University of Victoria biologist Tom Reimchen, reasoning that the adipose fin would not persist “for 60 million years unless it had some use,” decided to investigate. He found that removal of the fin forced fish to expend more energy to swim.
News About “Vestigial” Organs
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Nov. 18, 2021 from Ken Ham Blog
“Shocking human tail surgically removed from newborn,” the headlines proclaimed. According to news reports, a baby boy was recently born in Brazil with a “human tail with a ball at the end of it.”
Articles About “Vestigial” Organs
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Vestigial Organs: A Vanishing Argument
Vestigial organs are supposedly useless leftovers from our evolutionary past. However, this claim requires preconceived belief and an ignorance of the evidence.
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July 29, 2017 from Essays on Origins: Creation vs. Evolution
The “human tail” is just one example of what evolutionists call a “vestigial organ.”
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In-Depth ArticleAre “Vestigial Organs” Really “Proof of Evolution . . . on Your Body”?March 31, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Can YouTube video “Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on Your Body” prop up the human evolutionary story through our presumably useless body parts?
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Book ChapterVestigial Organs—Evidence for Evolution?July 7, 2014 from The New Answers Book 3
Vestigial organs have long been one of the classic arguments used as evidence for evolution.
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Magazine Department ArticleAppendixJuly 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine
The appendix has gotten a bad rap over the years. It’s often tossed out as a useless evolutionary leftover.
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The Appendix: Useless Vestige or Evolutionary Innovation?Feb. 23, 2013 from News to Know
The appendix has long been maligned as an obsolete vestigial remnant of digestive evolution. Is it really as worthless as people say?
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Magazine Department ArticleVestigial Structures—Leftover NewsApril 1, 2012 from Answers Magazine
Charles Darwin once claimed the human body contains evolutionary leftovers, and Fox news ran with the story—150 years later.
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Vestigial Organ Arguments: Useful or Unnecessary?Oct. 22, 2011 from News to Know
The vestigial vestigial organ arguments
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Vestigial Salmon Organ Actually UsefulJuly 16, 2011
Marine biologists have long thought the “adipose fin” on the back of some fish was vestigial. But a recent study finds a function for this fin.
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Feedback ArticleWhy Do Men Have Nipples?July 1, 2011 from Feedback
If there were an all-knowing Creator, why would He design men with a structure for which they have no use? Dr. Tommy Mitchell, AiG-U.S., explains why males have nipples.
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleVestigial Hiccups, Folding Fish-eyes, and Other Fables: Our Fishy Forebears . . . Again!May 18, 2011 from Answers in Depth
Time-lapse photos of a human embryonic face taking shape—unlike Haeckel’s fraudulent woodcuts—are authentic. But not even those assembled photos can peer back through time to prove evolution.
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Magazine Department ArticleLosing Any Remaining VestigeJan. 1, 2010 from Answers Magazine
Students still see the appendix mentioned as vestigial.
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Appendix Isn’t UselessAug. 29, 2009 from News to Know
“Creationists will have a field day with this one,” writes one blogger on the news. Bingo.
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Vestigial IdeasAug. 15, 2009 from News to Know
Another study reminds us that the idea of “vestigial organs” is, itself, vestigial!
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Appendix May Harbor Useful BacteriaJune 21, 2008
If you’re a creationist, you’ve probably known it for a while; if you’re an evolutionist, you may be just finding out: the human appendix does have a function.
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleSetting the Record Straight on Vestigial OrgansMay 28, 2008 from Answers in Depth
In a recent article, New Scientist discusses five supposed vestigial organs in the human body, but as Dr. David DeWitt shows, there’s more to the story than evolutionists will admit.
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Magazine Department ArticleHard to DigestFeb. 14, 2008 from Answers Magazine
The function of the human appendix—long derided as a useless leftover of evolution—has “finally” been uncovered.
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Appendix: Where the Good Bacteria LiveOct. 13, 2007
Surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School suggest that the appendix produces and protects beneficial germs for use in the intestines.
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Magazine Department ArticleVestigial StructuresSept. 5, 2006 from Answers Magazine
Almost every secular biology textbook today includes a section on vestigial structures—structures that are supposed remnants from ancestors that have lost their original function or capacity.
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Magazine ArticleCutting Out a Useless Vestigial ArgumentJune 1, 2004, pp. 51–52
Many have abandoned faith in the Bible influenced by such arguments—arguments which are themselves ‘vestigial’, the vestiges of supposed truths that, when used today, are useful only to mislead.
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Technical Research PaperThe Plantaris and the Question of Vestigial Muscles in ManAug. 1, 2000, pp. 50–53
Evolutionists continue to propose a few of our smaller and least understood muscles as being vestiges of once useful organs left over from putative evolutionary ancestors.
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Technical Research PaperDo Any Vestigial Organs Exist in Humans?Aug. 1, 2000, pp. 95–98
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.
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Technical Research PaperAre Wisdom Teeth (Third Molars) Vestiges of Human Evolution?Dec. 1, 1998, pp. 297–304
Research now indicates that the reasons for most third molar problems today are not due to evolutionary changes but other reasons.
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Technical Research PaperThe Human Vermiform AppendixApril 1, 1988, pp. 31–38
The appendix is commonly referred to as a classic example of a vestigial organ.
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