Christians: Do you deny the existence of your own tailbone?

People who go "Oh, but it has SOME use" or "there are muscles attached to it" should learn what vestigial means.

"Vestigial" is not a synonym for "useless".

Edit: it looks like three people already don't understand this. Those answers are comically bad. It's like watching a kindergartener trying to tell you that you're wrong about trigonometry because they don't understand it.

And the tailbone isn't even the only example of bad design. How about taking in food and water and air through the same hole, thus ensuring that thousands of people choke to death for no reason every year? An engineer with a brain could easily have fixed that, but it wasn't made by an engineer with a brain.

Or how the birth canal is routed through the pelvis, which killed (and still kills) thousands of women who don't have access to modern surgical procedures. Ectopic pregnancies too; a real engineer could easily have prevented those.

Darwin concluded that evidence of a past ancestor that both the chimp and the human shared had a tail and that the tailbone now is simply vestigial - that in the case of the tailbone, it lost its original function.

The tailbone along with the wisdom teeth and any other vestigial parts of the human body are evidence of evolution. Many true Christians (the ones who subscribe to creationism) will of course deny it with scripture which has not a single ounce of science within it.

Like the great majority of Christians, I embrace science as the means to better explore, understand and harmonize with the rational universe of God's creation. The vestige of tailbone in the human genetic pattern is part of our evolutionary heritage. Evolution is only controversial to biblical-literalist fundamentalists, who are a fringe minority in the global context of Christendom.

How weird. I was thinking of that earlier...then my mind started wondering if most humans had an exact number of vertebrae and only those with a 'tail' had more than the set amount, or if humans had differing number of vertebrae from one person to the next. And would we have the same shape of butt w/o them?

I'm pretty sure the appendix and tonsils are unnecessary. I know they can be removed with no direct consequences to our lifespan but I think I've heard that they can serve as filters,too (I think)

@ singlecell, I know there are a few people born with enough of one to form a little flesh 'tail'. They may be a minority but they exist.

Are you guys saying God couldn't make humans walk without designing us with a defunct tailbone? There's no other way, just like there was no other way but to make us 98% identical to chimpanzees? I wish people would seriously think through the answers they give...

You'd have to be a complete danged fool to think that "in his image" was meant to refer to a PHYSICAL image.

At any rate, I can't disavow my own tailbone, having slipped on ice and landed on it a few hours ago.

Heck no. The intelligent designer decided not to code for it cus it was one way the Devil could get a hold of you. Instead he designed a spine that is fully functional for bipedal locomotion. Seems I recall it got a Darwin Award in 1978.

Or it means you flunked anatomy and physiology! The sacrum and tail bone act as connectors for muscles and other tissues necessary to allow among other things rectal continence... Without it one would literally be full of **** - as you are in making your nonsensical claim.

Even if the function were not understood, that is not probative of anything other than ignorance. Making this particular argument amounts to making evolution the 'theory of the gaps'. We don't know what this is for - evolutiondidit..

False.

This is an argument from the 90's (along with their preposterous 'junk DNA' argument) which has been overturned.

We now know that the coccyx is necessary as a junction point for ligaments.

(we couldn't walk without it)

"Tailbone" was a name ascribed by Darwin.

So yet again, science overturns nonsensical atheist argumentation. (gotta love irony at least!)

In humans, it's an anchor for several muscles and the pelvic diaphragm. What's the problem?