Religions > Atheism > Evolutionary throwbacks & other biological oddities - creationist explanation?
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"Bill, The Avender" |
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29 Feb 2004 11:20:30 AM |
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Evolutionary throwbacks & other biological oddities - creationist explanation? |
Sometimes, people are born with tails. Even if you can ignore the
fact that the tailbone is a residual tail, you can't ignore a blatant,
bona fide true and actual _tail_ when it occurs.
There are also people who can move their ears - I happen to be one.
It's not a real "impressive" movement when all you're doing is looking
at it, but when you put your fingers on the muscles, the movement is
definite and pronounced and right there as opposed to being the effect
of stretching our eyebrows. In fact, I can move pretty much any point
on my entire scalp. I wear a pony tail and can actually "wiggle" it.
There are atrophied muscles all around the ears from the days when our
ancestors could still move theirs.
Few of what we consider "birth defects" could more keenly display our
animalistic heritage than the cleft lip. For whatever reason, a split
lip in humans no longer turns out "right", except in very rare cases.
But it's a very clear visual relative to the split upper lip most
mammals possess. In most cases, we still have the small "divot" in
our upper lip, and it serves no useful purpose whatsoever. There is
no reason for it to be there other than as a "leftover".
The middle and ring finger are connected in such a way, that the ring
finger cannot itself extend (I'm sure there are a few exceptions).
Coming from a species for whom our fingers used to be the end of the
bony ridge of wings and fins, this makes sense. Being a fully formed,
brand spanking new "perfectly designed species", however, it doesn't.
How do creationists explain all of these things? To me, and to most
people I'm sure, they're much more sensibly explained as "left overs"
from earlier, non-human periods in our biological history. From a
creationist perspective, however, they make no sense whatsoever.
Unless, perhaps, you happen to believe that ancient superstition about
people once breeding with animals and coming up with all sorts of
"half breeds" like the Minotaur or goat fish.
Just curious. Other examples of the sort of artifact I'm talking
about would be more than welcomed, as well as rebuttals to the notion
that they support evolution and "to some degree", at least, refute
creationism.
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| User: "Phÿltêr" |
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| Title: Re: Evolutionary throwbacks & other biological oddities - creationist explanation? |
29 Feb 2004 08:13:11 PM |
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(Bill, The Avender) astounded us with:
news:40421cfd.63516204@newsgroups.bellsouth.net:
There are also people who can move their ears - I happen to be one.
Damn, and I thought I was the only one...When asked how I do it, I say "I
don't know, I just do it"
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| User: "Bill, The Avender" |
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| Title: Re: Evolutionary throwbacks & other biological oddities - creationist explanation? |
29 Feb 2004 08:57:51 PM |
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In alt.atheism on 1 Mar 2004 02:13:11 GMT, "Phÿltêr"
<Phÿltêr@freeway.com> wrote:
Avender@SpamMeNot.com (Bill, The Avender) astounded us with:
news:40421cfd.63516204@newsgroups.bellsouth.net:
There are also people who can move their ears - I happen to be one.
Damn, and I thought I was the only one...When asked how I do it, I say "I
don't know, I just do it"
Heh... It is a bit "weird", innit'? ;-) And I'm actually learning
to move them separately, which can be rather interesting. It's pretty
easy to see just from the way it feels that most of our muscles for
moving our ears became our eyebrows and, to some extent, our cheeks
(via the temple area). I'm considering having my ears modified to be
long & pointy - a la "Spock" - in order to emphasize this activity
when it occurs. No doubt _that_ could really freak some people out.
;-)
Before that ability manifested full-force, the impending "we want to
be active!" activity in those muscles caused an _awful_ lot of
horribly intense neck cramping in my younger years. I guess that's
just how it goes with muscles that have atrophied into virtual
nothingness - somewhat painful to individuals who have retained the
ability to a very limited extent, while generally lacking the muscular
integrity to make it an easy thing to do. :-#
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L8r,
Bill
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