To: Dimensio
First things first. The fact that even one of those examples is in a textbook and regularly taught as indisputable fact is ridiculous.
Now the geological column is taught that it is layer upon layer one on top of the other in the exact order that they state when in nature you will not find it as such.
Vestigal organs. It's taught that the tailbone is an example of this but if you had it removed you couldn't walk. Sounds as though it serves a purpose to me.
Legs on whales. Those aren't legs they are used for mating.
197 posted on
02/13/2004 7:02:45 PM PST by
kuma
To: kuma
Now the geological column is taught that it is layer upon layer one on top of the other in the exact order that they state when in nature you will not find it as such. I can't parse this at all.
Vestigal organs. It's taught that the tailbone is an example of this but if you had it removed you couldn't walk. Sounds as though it serves a purpose to me.
I'll leave the issue of the tailbone to someone who might know better and ask: what about the appendix?
Legs on whales. Those aren't legs they are used for mating.
So why are they so oddly similar to legs on land-mammals?
199 posted on
02/13/2004 7:10:20 PM PST by
Dimensio
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To: kuma; Dimensio
Legs on whales. Those aren't legs they are used for mating. Not exactly. Whale embryos have leg buds which are absorbed back into the developing embryo. (Baleen whale embryos have teethe that are absorbed back as well
Whale Embryo
Sometimes the absorption is not complete.
See also
To: kuma
Vestigal organs. It's taught that the tailbone is an example of this but if you had it removed you couldn't walk. Sounds as though it serves a purpose to me. Incorrect. Removal of the coccyx is a surgical procedure required in some instances of injury or disease. The patient is perfectly able to walk afterward however many patients report constant lower back pain after the surgery.
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