Let me add to this fellow's education: Tonsils, Body Hair, Coccyx, Wisdom Teeth, Earlobes, 4th and 5th Fingers, 3, 4, 5th Toes. Human vestigial organs include the muscles which move the ears and the tiny muscles that erect the hairs on the body. They are still fully functional in most people (they move the ears and raise the hairs) but are useless. Now that our ears are located on opposite sides of our skulls, chickening the ears is of no value in trying to locate sound sources as it is in most other mammals. Similarly, now that we have so little body hair, erecting individual hairs has no "purpose" in that it has no effect on the insulating properties of the fur coat we no longer own. HOUSTON ain't no city, it's just SUBURBS 575Texas Longhorns Wrong again! According to FBI statistics: Miami, West Palm Beach, and TAMPA are all over these "dangerous cities" lists! West Palm Beach is #2 most dangerous in its population category, Tampa is #5... Then, in this evelutionsar progress we have the same thing in animals; such as Dewclaws, Remnants of legs in snakes. Other animals besides snakes have lost their legs- see whales, for example. They sometimes have vestigial leg bones, I believe also hipbones. Ostriches have wings, short and useless. My favorite example of vestigial "organs" is the example of pseudogenes. These are genes that still encode particular enzymes or other proteins but are never actually expressed. During the course of evolution, many genes become duplicated or multiplied many-fold due to errors in DNA or chromosome replication. Mutational errors that inactivate one of these multiple copies will not be weeded out by natural selection as would be the case if there were only one copy of the gene. Consequently, it often happens that mutations hit the control region of a gene in such a way as to prevent the gene from ever being "turned on," yet carry complete and correct instructions as to what kind of protein to make if they ever did get turned on. It is now known that humans and all other plants and animals have large numbers of these useless pseudogenes. In fact, a good proof of evolution is the fact that humans share many pseudogenes with chimps and gorillas, some with monkeys, and a few (I think I remember correctly) with non-primates. Basically, the closer a species is to humans, the more pseudogenes it shares with us. -- Think this guy will come back and admit he's wrong? Not likely with his kind. His is a message of yelling and hate. About all we can do is ignore the ignorant and hope they'll tire and go away. Jerry of ASI
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