Get Answers: ‘Vestigial’ Organs

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Are there several organs in the human body that have no useful purpose? Are there ‘badly designed’ parts of our body?

• Are wisdom teeth (third molars) vestiges of human evolution?
• Cutting out a useless vestigial argument
• Do any vestigial organs exist in humans?
• Embryonic development
• Evolution and medicine
• The evolution of childbirth?
• Human appendix—just can’t get no respect
• The Human Vermiform Appendix — a General Surgeon’s Reflections (Semi-technical)
• Is lack of room for wisdom teeth proof of evolution? (ICR)
• Is Our ‘Inverted’ Retina Really ‘Bad Design’? (Technical)
• Is the Backwards Human Retina Evidence of Poor Design? (ICR Origins Issues)
• Oh! My aching wisdom teeth!
• The miracle of tears
• Our eye movements and their control: part 1 (Technical)
• Our eye movements and their control: part 2 (Technical)
• That Troubling Laryngeal Nerve? (ICR Origins Issues)

What about design features in animals that seem to have no use, such as wings on penguins? Why have evolutionists had such interest in claiming that this supports evolution?

• How manatees lost their legs?
• Horse leg splint bones: useless leftovers or good design?
• New eyes for blind cave fish?
• Of penguins and people
• The platypus
• The panda thumbs its nose at the dysteleological arguments of the atheist Stephen Jay Gould (Technical)

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

• “Junk” DNA—past, present and future, part 1 (Semi-technical)
• “Junk” DNA—past, present and future, part 2 (Semi-technical)
• Are pseudogenes ‘shared mistakes’ between primate genomes? (Technical)
• Evolution: fact or fiction?
• Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs)—evolutionary “junk” or God’s tools?
• Human/chimp DNA similarity continues to decrease: counting indels
• If human and chimp DNA are so similar, why are there so many physical and mental differences between them?
• The junk dealer ain’t selling that no more (Semi-technical — Access Research Network)
• ‘Junk’ DNA: evolutionary discards or God’s tools? (Technical)
• The living database
• Pseudogene function: regulation of gene expression (Technical)
• Pseudogenes and Origins (Technical, Geoscience Research Institute)
• Pseudogene function: more evidence (Technical)