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sures that var i ous hor mone glands put for ward by ev o lu tion ists con -
are func tion ing cor rect ly. tains its own in ter nal in con sist en -
Today, many ev o lu tion ists ac cept cies, be sides be ing sci en tif i cal ly er ro -
that the myth of ves tig i al or gans ne ous. We hu mans have no ves tig i al
stemmed from sheer ig no rance. The or gans in her it ed from our sup posed
ev o lu tion ist bi ol o gist S.R. Scadding an ces tors, be cause hu mans did not
ex press es this in an ar ti cle pub lished evolve ran dom ly from oth er liv ing
in the mag a zine Evolutionary Theory: things, but were ful ly and per fect ly
Since it is not pos si ble to un am big u - cre at ed in the form we have to day.
ous ly iden ti fy use less struc tures, and
since the struc ture of the ar gu ment
used is not sci en tif i cal ly val id, I con - WALLACE, ALFRED
clude that ‘ves tig i al or gans' pro vide no RUSSELL
spe cial ev i dence for the the o ry of ev o lu -
The British nat u ral his to ri an
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Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913) is
Evolutionists al so make a sig nif i - known for the idea that spe cies
cant log i cal er ror in their claim that emerged through nat u ral se lec tion.
ves tig i al or gans in liv ing things are a In a pa per he wrote in 1855 ti tled
leg a cy from their an ces tors: Some or - "On the Law Which Has Regulated
gans re ferred to as "ves tig i al" are not the Introduction of New Species,"
present in the spe cies claimed to be Wallace maintained
the fore run ners of man. that all spe cies
For ex am ple, some apes have were ex ten sions
no ap pen dix. The zo ol o gist of oth er spe cies
Professor Hannington Enoch, an to which they
op po nent of the ves tig i al or gan were close ly re -
the sis, sets out this er ror of log ic: lat ed.

Apes pos sess an ap pen dix, where as Despite de -
their less im me di ate rel a tives, the vel op ing his
low er apes, do not; but it ap pears the sis at ap -
again among the still low er mam - Alf red Rus sel Wal lace
prox i mate ly the
mals such as the opos sum. How
same time as
can the ev o lu tion ists ac count for this?
Darwin, Wallace held dif fer ent
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views on a num ber of points. As a
The sce nar io of ves tig i al or gans
be liev er in the hu man soul, Wallace
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