Vanishing vestigials

If evolutionists do not know what something does, they assume it is useless, as we will see with "junk DNA".  One of their "proofs" of evolution has been that as creatures evolve, some body parts that were useful long ago become less important in the new and improved creatures.  Eventually these parts no longer function and they shrink in size.  Evolutionists called them "vestigial organs".  In the late 1800s they made long lists of vestigial organs in humans, including the tonsils, pineal gland, thymus, and appendix.⁵  In the years since, advances in our understanding of anatomy and biology have knocked them off the lists one by one.  Yet the notion lingers on that "there is something to it".  In 2009, researchers at Arizona State and Duke Universities reported that the little appendix is a "safe house" for important gut bacteria.  If the intestine becomes infected and is forced to flush everything out (diarrhea), the good bacteria stored in the appendix are there to return the intestine to normal working order.³³  "Maybe it's time to correct the textbooks," says William Parker, Ph.D., assistant professor of surgical sciences at Duke and the senior author of the study.  "Many biology texts today still refer to the appendix as a vestigial organ."  Furthermore, over 70% of all primate and rodent taxonomic families contain species with an appendix.¹⁴  The vestigial organ idea helped fool millions of people into believing the theory of evolution.  Today, this "proof" is down the toilet.