Vestigial organs in Sep12 Asleep

by hamsterbait 3 Replies latest jw friends

  • hamsterbait
    hamsterbait

    The Biologist being quoted - Michael Behe, is typical of a certain type of Christian, whose faith appears to be incapable of surviving a challenge that cannot easily be explained away or understood.

    He argues about the nonsense of the idea of vestigial organs, using as an example such an organ that has now been found to have a function.

    He omits an explanation of certain blind cave fish, with perfectly formed eyes, but no optic nerve, or those where the eye is enclosed inside the skull with no eye sockets to admit light. Whales being caught with hind legs, or the hips of snakes, the footbones inside a whales hind quarters. A muscle in the human neck apparatus, which some have and many do not but which serves no use. (I forget its name - HELP!)

    And of course the completely anachronistic existence of the WTBTS a vestigial organ[ization] of vast proportions which serves no useful survival purpose for modern humans.

    HB

  • daniel-p
    daniel-p
    And of course the completely anachronistic existence of the WTBTS a vestigial organ[ization] of vast proportions which serves no useful survival purpose for modern humans.

    Brilliant!

  • AlmostAtheist
    AlmostAtheist

    SeattleNiceGuy had a great thread on atavisms, including humans born with tails. Not just bumps or growths, but bony tails. Why did Jehovah insert code into the human genome to provide us with a tail, then turn it off?

    Dave

  • seattleniceguy
    seattleniceguy

    Hey Dave,

    Thanks for the plug! The link to that article is:

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/88649/1.ashx

    SNG

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