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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 7)
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 11:25:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 11:25:01 1985
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>        15.  The existence of human organs whose  function  is  unknown
>             does  not  imply that they are vestiges of organs from our
>             evolutionary ancestors.  In fact, as medical knowledge has
>             increased,  the functions of all of these organs have been
>             discovered [a]. The widespread absence of vestigial organs
>             implies that evolution never happened.
> 
>             a)  Jerry Bergman, ''Vestigial Organs:  Putative  Evidence
>                 for   Evolution   of   Homo   Sapiens''   (Unpublished
>                 Manuscript, 1306 North Orleans  Ave.,  Bowling  Green,
>                 Ohio 43402: 137 pages, 1984).
> 
What good is an unpublished manuscript as a reference???

>        16.  There are many single cell forms of life, but there are no
>             forms  of  animal  life  with  2,  3,..., or even 20 cells
>             [a,b]. If organic evolution happened, these forms of  life
>             should   exist   in   great   abundance.    None  do.  The
>             evolutionary tree has no trunk [c].
> 
But there are organisms which normally are unicellular, but occasionally
(when conditions warrant) join together to form a multicellular
organism.  I refer to slime molds.  They bridge the alleged gap rather
nicely.

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"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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