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| | Vestigial Organs - Creation vs Evolution, Science, Bible, Mike Riddle |
 | | Vestigial organs are body structures considered to have been better developed and functional in the past but to have now lost most or all of their function and some or most of their structure. | | | This article will review which organs people are most likely to consider vestigial and what their known functions are, so that you can show others there is no such thing as a vestigial organ. | | | Examples of vestigial organs in humans usually include the appendix, the coccyx (tail bone), and the tonsils. |
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http://www.train2equip.com/paperVestigial.asp
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| | Creation Science Ministries - Vestigial Organs |
| | Vestigial organs are said to be evidence of evolution because we have organs that we no longer need and they, subsequently, have become useless. | | | Evolutionary theory is based upon the belief that we are improving by acquiring more and more genetic information, the basic amoeba to man idea. | | | Contemporary books on anatomy describe this semilunar fold simply as that portion of the conjunctiva that aids in the cleansing and lubrication of the eyeball, making no reference to its being vestigial. |
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http://evidenceofcreation.com/Vestigial-Organs.html
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| | Citing Scadding (1981): Poor Creationist Scholarship on Vestigial Structures |
| | as was pointed out in the introduction, the term vestigial, is, as a rule, only applied to such organs as have lost their original physiological significance. | | | One is the meaning and importance of "vestigial" and the second is how "vestigial organs" are identified. | | | "Vestigial" does not mean "non-functional"; vestiges can have functions. |
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http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/scadding.html
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| | Missing Universe Museum - Vestigial Organs |
| | A vestigial organ or appendage is supposedly something that exists in a living organism without any function, but served some useful purpose in the past in some ancestral form. | | | That is because in the last 100 years, medical science has found that there is indeed a purpose to everything in the human body. | | | Today there are no vestigial organs claimed for the human body! |
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http://missinguniversemuseum.com/Exhibit6.htm
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| | Evolution vs. Creation (Round 15) [Free Republic] |
| | Thus, the concept of an organism's unique genealogical history is closely related to the concept of evolutionary opportunism, which I consider in section III. | | | There are many examples of nearly useless or nonfunctional characters of organisms, and these can very often be explained in terms of evolutionary histories. | | | It's off my main point but, anyway, vestigial features like whale legs are not in fact handled by any YEC loss-of-grace theory. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a8ef634710e.htm
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| | CB360: Function of vestigial organs. |
| | "Vestigial" does not mean an organ is useless. | | | Some vestigial organs can be determined to be useless if experiments show that organisms with them survive no better than organisms without them. | | | Practically all "vestigial" organs in man have been shown to have definite uses and not to be vestigial at all. |
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http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB360.html
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| | Those Naughty Vestigial Bits and Other Bad Engineering |
| | When they stop to think why the hair on the backs of their necks should stand up, at that or any terrifying situation, the only explanation that makes sense is that it's a vestigial reaction inherited from our mammal ancestors. | | | Since most of us nowadays have so little body hair as to render it useless for insulation purposes, goosebumps are another vestigial reaction whose tool (fur) is no longer with us. | | | Sandy Petersen adds the following: "Pythons and boas actually have tiny vestigial claws on either side of their cloacas, which are [associated with] their useless hips. |
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http://www.skepticreport.com/creationism/vestigial.htm
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| | Vestigial features - EvoWiki |
| | This is a misrepresentation: an organ in a modern animal may be described as vestigial if it does not serve the same function in the modern animal as the cognate organ served in an ancestor, even if the modern organ serves a completely different use. | | | They often claim that for an organ to be "vestigial" it must be utterly useless. | | | Male mammals often have nipples, like the proverbially-useless boars' teats, and female mammals often have a clitoris, which is the structure that becomes the males' penis. |
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http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Vestigial_features
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| | Do You Suffer From Anthony Burgess's 'Vestigial Fear Of Hell'? J. Gaslin (Forum) (9-00) |
| | Sarcasm also was the approach of Voltaire and Twain, but is much more subdued today than it was in Mencken's heyday. | | | The "sex addicts" I know tend to have better social skills, though. | | | Log onto our List of Quotes for general inspiration, or to find out who you want to start reading next, but dig into Ingersoll and Paine when you want to deal with the "vestigial" spooks! |
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9450.htm
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| | Evidence for Evolution (Page 12) |
| | Many organisms possess vestigial structures that have no apparent function, but that resemble structures their presumed ancestors had. | | | In other mammals such as mice, the cecum is the largest part of the large intestine and functions in storageusually of bulk cellulose in herbivores. | | | The human vermiform appendix is apparently vestigial; it represents the degenerate terminal part of the cecum, the blind pouch or sac in which the large intestine begins. |
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http://www.txtwriter.com/Backgrounders/Evolution/EVpage12.html
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| | Harvestime Books Store Entrance |
| | 15-Similarities 80 pp., 1997-$7.95 Several evolutionary hoaxes: Similar structures, so-called vestigial ("useless") organs, recapitulation. |
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http://evolution-facts.org/catalog/Books.htm
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| | Vestigial Structures History - Vestigial Structures Information |
| | From the late nineteenth century until the 1960s, biologists thought that the human body contained scores of useless vestigial structures, including the coccyx, ear muscles, pineal gland, thymus, vermiform appendix, wisdom teeth, and others. | | | biologists · tiny · mammals · evolution biology · human body · reptiles · descent · large intestine · vestige · pineal gland · digestive organ · platypus · boa constrictor · vestigial organs · coccyx ·; wisdom teeth · human appendix · vermiform appendix | | | A vestigial structure may be completely without function, like fetal platypus teeth, or it may be changed and diminished in function. |
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http://www.bookrags.com/other/health/vestigial-structures-wap.html
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| | Evolution -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | A (additional info and facts about vestigial organ) vestigial organ or structure may exist with little or no purpose in one organism, though they have a clear purpose in others. | | | The human (additional info and facts about wisdom teeth) wisdom teeth and (Supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book) appendix are common examples. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/ev/evolution.htm
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| | Useless Limbs (and Other Vestigial Organs) |
| | The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines vestigial organs as organs or structures remaining or surviving in a degenerate, atrophied, or imperfect condition or form. | | | The term “vestigial organ” is often poorly defined, most commonly because someone has chosen a poor source to define the term. | | | In the never-ending search for scientific truth, hypotheses are proposed, evidence is found, and theories are formulated to describe and explain what is being observed in the world around us. |
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http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/top10_vestigial_organs.html
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| | Fake Sex in Virgin Whiptail Lizards (Vestigial Behavior) |
| | The lizards evolved from a sexual species and the behavior to copulate like a male -- to engage in fake sex -- is a vestigial behavior; that is, a behavior present in a species, but is expressed in an imperfect form, which in this case, is useless. | | | Fake Sex in Virgin Whiptail Lizards (Vestigial Behavior) | | | Despite the fact that it is unnecessary and futile to attempt copulation with each other, the lizards still like to try, and occasionally one of the females will start to “act like a male” by attempting to copulate with another female. |
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http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/top10_vestigial_organs-3.html
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| | Vestigial-sideband modulation - definition of Vestigial-sideband modulation in Encyclopedia |
| | Today, such simple inversion-based speech encryption techniques are easily decrypted using simple techniques and are no longer regarded as secure. | | | Single-sideband modulation (SSB) is a refinement of the technique of amplitude modulation designed to be more efficient in its use of electrical power and bandwidth. | | | It is closely related to vestigial sideband modulation (VSB) (see below). |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Vestigial-sideband_modulation
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| | ‘Vestigial’ Organs: What do they prove? |
| | First, it is in principle not possible to prove that an organ is useless, because there is always the possiblity that a use may be discovered in the future. | | | This has happened with over a hundred alleged useless vestigial organs which are now known to be essential. | | | Second, even if the alleged vestigial organ were no longer needed, it would prove devolution not evolution. |
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http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/446.asp
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| | Electrolite: Vestigial spine discovered on Capitol Hill! |
| | Which says quite a lot about how divorced from everyday common sense our politics have, overall, become. | | | Comments on Vestigial spine discovered on Capitol Hill!: |
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http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/002344.html
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| | Evolution |
| | Thus vestigial structures can be viewed as evidence for evolution: organisms having vestigial structures probably share a common ancestry with organisms in with organisms in which the homologous structure is functional. | | | The vestigial tailbone in humans is homologous to the functional tail of other primates. | | | Vestigial organs are often homologous to organs that are useful in other species. |
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http://bioweb.cs.earlham.edu/text/evolution/HTML/live.html
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| | Vestigial Organ |
| | A vestigial characteristic is a useless remnant (or vestige) of a trait found in one's evolutionary predecessors. | | | The opening and closing lines of the song were inspired by the commonly quoted myth that ordinary humans only use about ten percent of our brain capacity. |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/organ.shtml
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| | vestigial - definition of vestigial by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Biology Occurring or persisting as a rudimentary or degenerate structure. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Hillbrook, by the way, is not the only place in Christendom where a vestigial polytheism forbids the taking in vain of the Evil One's name. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/vestigial
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| | Vestigial Structures |
| | Some examples of vestigial structures include the whale pelvis, tiny snake pelvic and limb bones, and the eyes in cave-dwelling salamanders and fish that are completely blind. | | | Such features, though no longer useful (as far as we can tell), are presumed to have been useful in ancestral species. |
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http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Vestigial_Structures
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| | vestigial sideband - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Vestigial sideband (VSB) is a type of amplitude modulation (AM) technique (sometimes called VSB-AM) that encodes data by varying the amplitude of a single carrier frequency. | | | Portions of one of the redundant sidebands are removed to form a vestigial sideband signal - so-called because a vestige of the sideband remains. | | | In AM, the carrier itself does not fluctuate in amplitude. |
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| | Macroevolution: The Evidence |
| | Describe how vestigial organs provide clues to the organism's origin. | | | Describe how the comparative analysis of DNA sequences can be used to trace evolutionary relationships. | | | Describe how comparative anatomy and embryology provide clues to evolutionary relationships among species. |
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http://www.life.uiuc.edu/bio100/lectures/sp98lects/25s98evidence.html
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| | Evidence for Evolution--Rudimentary Organs |
| | An organ that is useful under some circumstances may be injurious under others (e.g., insects with wings on small exposed islands often have fused elytra). | | | Even if a "rudimentary organ" actually has a function about which we observers are unaware (e.g., if vestigial pelvic bones of a whale may function to support gonads), why would it still provide excellent evidence in support of evolution by descent? | | | [Variation] [Fossils] [Geographic Distribution] [Morphology] [Classification] [Vestigial Organs] [Embryology] |
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http://nyu.edu/projects/fitch/courses/evolution/html/rudimentary_organs.html
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| | Major Religions Ranked by Size |
| | A high world-wide figure for people who consider themselves primarily practitioners of Shinto would be about 4 million. | | | Also, the strongest active religions which have Shinto roots (such as Tenrikyo) no longer claim to be "branches" of Shinto, and can be listed separately. | | | Certainly most Japanese people participate in holidays which have Shinto roots, but in this list we are trying to track self-identification, not general vestigial influence. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
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| | Vestigial Organs Q&A |
| | What about ‘Vestigial’ (‘junk’) DNA that evolutionists claim is a useless leftover of evolution? | | | The junk dealer ain’t selling that no more |
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http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/vestigialorgans.asp#junk
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