If there is a god explain why we have an Appendix?

The appendix has several functions, some of which have been known since the 1970s. So a better question is; why do people continue to perpetuate the myth that the appendix is a "useless organ"?

The logical error in the vestigial argument is the arrogant assumption that if we don't know what something does, it must not do anything; and must therefore be an evolutionary leftover. Older textbooks had almost 200 vestigial organs in humans. Now we are down to a couple of disputed examples (not including "adenoids or tonsils or a coccyx" whose functions can be found using a quick google search.).

The same logical error was used to characterize non-coding DNA as "Junk DNA". Yet the ENCODE project recently published in Nature, that 80% of this so-called "Junk" is actively performing functions in the body.

I'm not saying you have to agree with my faith. But I am suggesting that you resist falling for arguments based on logical errors. Don't be so eager to attach yourself to an argument that supports your position, that you forget to consider the quality of the argument itself.

You are biologically about 40 years out of date with this question.

The appendix is a bacterial vault that repopulates the gut with digestive bacteria after serious stomach disturbances such as dysentery. In developed countries with modern hygiene the appendix sees little use and is more apt to infection. In third world countries there is more use and less appendicitis. It also has a function in fetal development. (see link below)

Tonsils and adenoids are part of the immune system and while they become problematic, they are not useless.

The coccyx caps the spinal column and is an attachment point for muscles. Hardly useless.

Each of these serves a particular design function. Read and learn.

>Sigh< I see somebody was sleeping during biology class...

The appendix and is a part of the lymphatic system and does have a function in the body. However it is possible to a person to survive without one, as it is not critical to life. The idea that it has no function was discarded decades ago. Or are you still like the ancient Egyptians who use to remove the brains from their corpses before mummification because they believed the brain served no purpose.

Some with the adenoids and tonsils, where are a part of the immune system, or the coccyx which allows for balance. None of them are "useless". That idea was dismissed by science decades ago.

Yes! The appendix plays an important role in development of the early development of the immune system, one could say the appendix primes the immune system. The same can be said of the lymphoid organs (adenoids and tonsils). The coccyx stands as a base for anal and rectal muscles, without which stool continence would be impossible.

OF course even if these things really did not have a function, it has no impact on the existence or non-existence of God. The fall affected all of creation and as result all systems are slowly breaking down including organic systems. Natural selection by selecting some traits in favor of other traits ultimately reduces potential variation and in some cases trading or altering functionality resulting in the loss of alleles that are selected out of a population. It does not represent long term progress or advancement of a species, but short term expression of alleles that are useful for survival in the present.

The fossil record proves incontrovertibly there was greater biological diversity in the past, there were more body types in the past, there was greater variety of kinds in the past. Where did all this variety of life go. What happened to this greater diversity of life in the biosphere? Natural selection over time reduced the ability of populations to adapt to changes in the environment and those creatures became extinct because they were no longer able to adapt. The evidence is clear! The end result of natural selection is not formation of novel species, it is extinction of over selected species the exact opposite of what the evolution model asserts. This is observable, testable and reproducible! Real science, the 2000 pound gorilla in the corner that proponents of evolution deny is there!

Vestigial structures, represent one of two things,

1. A lack of understanding how an organ or structure works - making evolution the science of the gaps.

2. An organ or structure that over time due to natural selection has lost function - establishing natural selection in the long term reduces diversity and survivability.

Either way pointing to vestigial structures is a self defeating argument for proponents of evolution.

Actually you are ignorant of the role of the appendix!

It stores the good flora and fauna required for digestion so that when food poisoning or infection destroys the balance required it can be replaced!

The reason the coccyx remains id to provide a proper end to the spine to support it when sitting!

We have more than one Appendix, all have a function. The intestinal vermiform appendix ( the one that gets infected and people have removed) is part of the lymphatic system. It filters and stores bacteria (hence its likelihood of infection itself) to help boost the immune system during infectious periods.

Our tonsils prevent infection from going to our lungs/gastro intestinal system, and our coccyx whats left of our tail, its a vestigial bone structure.

God didn't 'give' is any of these things.

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You're forgetting!

What about the spleen?

The urban legend is that one or all of these organs were involved in how/why we used to not die of age, and that when Adam and Eve were condemned and started aging, these organs were shut down.

Of course, that is just a guess.

Anyway... Aren't the savior scientists supposed to be able to explain the answer to your question?

Correct me if I'm wrong.