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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

understood to be the point at which the organs and
muscles of the pelvic region were held together.
In subsequent years, it was found that the thymus,

thought to be vestigial, activates the T-cells and sets the body's im-
mune system into operation; that the pineal gland is responsible
for the secretion of essential hormones such as melatonin that con-
trols production of the luteinizing hormone; that the thyroid
gland ensures a balanced development of the infant and plays a
role in setting the body's metabolic rate; and that the pituitary
gland ensures the correct functioning of several hormonal glands

such as the thyroid, the adrenals and the reproductive glands, as
well as controlling the skeletal development.
The semi-lunar fold in the corner of the eye that Darwin
called vestigial was shown to help clean and lubricate the eye.
Today, it has been determined that the organs claimed to be
vestigial in past years all have definite functions. In their book ti-
tled "Vestigial Organs" Are Fully Functional, Dr. Jerry Bergman and
Dr. George Howe set out this fact in
detail.

Accordingly, it is accepted that
the myth of vestigial organs sub-
scribed to by so many evolutionists
is an argument based on igno-

Given the primitive level of 19th-century
science, the appendix was thought to be
a functionless and therefore "vestigial"
organ.

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