How do jw's explain vestigial organs in humans?

by purrpurr 12 Replies latest jw friends

  • DarioKehl
    DarioKehl

    Nope. It's just easy to mimic their 6th grade diction level. Sprinkle a few classic logical fallacies, drizzle some loaded language on top of it and serve with a healthy dose of social pressure and anyone can create a fantastic JW Word Salad!

    Enjoy!

  • Saintbertholdt
    Saintbertholdt

    I don't know about vestigial organs, but here's something I found interesting:

    Its from the book 'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Richard Dawkins:

    The vas deferens is the pipe that carries sperm from the testis to the penis. The most direct

    route is the fictitious one shown on the left-hand side of the diagram opposite. The actual route taken by

    the vas deferens is shown on the right of the diagram. It takes a ridiculous detour around the ureter, the

    pipe that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder. If this were designed, nobody could seriously deny

    that the designer had made a bad error. But, just as with the recurrent laryngeal nerve, all becomes clear

    when we look at evolutionary history. The likely original position of the testes is shown in dotted lines.

    When, in the evolution of mammals, the testes descended to their present position in the scrotum (for

    reasons that are unclear, but are often thought to be associated with temperature), the vas deferens

    unfortunately got hooked the wrong way over the ureter. Rather than reroute the pipe, as any sensible

    engineer would have done, evolution simply kept on lengthening it – once again, the marginal cost of

    each slight increase in length of detour would have been small. Yet again, it is a beautiful example of an

    initial mistake compensated for in a post hoc fashion, rather than being properly corrected back on the

    drawing board. Examples like this must surely undermine the position of those who hanker after

    ‘intelligent design’.


  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    purrpurr - "How do JWs explain vestigial organs in humans?"

    Satan, imperfection, Adamic Sin...

    ...take your pick.

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