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lated with regard to pseudogenes, which shows that the claim that
pseudogenes are not beneficial cannot be trusted.
In the nineteenth century, evolutionists produced a list of hun-
dreds of supposedly atrophied organs in the human body, such as the
appendix and coccyx, which they claimed had lost their func-

tions during the process of evolution. Thanks to the scientific
and technological advances made during the twentieth cen-
tury, however, the list of so-called "vestigial" organs shrank
enormously, and it was realized that organs originally be-
lieved to have no function actually possess features of great
importance for life. It seems that a similar process is now
transpiring with the pseudogenes, and the so-called proofs
to which evolutionists have attached their hopes are disap-
pearing one by one.

3. The phylogenetic trees constructed using pseudo-
genes are both internally inconsistent and also conflict
with other phylogenetic trees.
On the other hand, the phylogenetic trees which evo-
lutionists construct using pseudogenes conflict both in-

In the nineteenth century, evo-
lutionists produced lists of
hundreds of "vestigial organs,"
which they used as evidence
for evolution. This list grew in-
creasingly shorter during the
twentieth century, however,
when it was established that
organs believed to be function-
less actually had very impor-
tant uses for the body. The
coccyx is one of these.
AN X-RAY OF THE COCCYX

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