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if with forceps in the hairless groove connecting the pad of the first digit
and pseudothumb. . . When watching a panda eat leaves. . . we were al-
ways impressed by its dexterity. Forepaws and mouth work together

with great precision, with great economy of motion. . . 78
In a research published in 1999 by the magazine Nature showed

that in its natural environment, the panda's thumb was extremely use-
ful. This joint project conducted by four Japanese researchers employed
In his 1980 book "The
computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging techniques Panda's Thumb,"
and found that the panda's thumb is "one of the most extraordinary ma- Gould suggested that this
animal's hand was "faulty."
nipulation systems" 79 in the world of mammals. This following comment
However, new scientific re-
comes from the same article, titled "Role of the Giant Panda's Pseudo- search invalidated that claim
and revealed that this feature
thumb":
of the panda was actually
highly functional.
We have shown that the hand of the giant panda has a much more refined
grasping mechanism than has been suggested in previous morphological
models. 80

In short, the claims made by evolutionists over the past 150 years of "vestigial organs" and "faulty" bio-
logical characteristics have all been proved false by closer investigations of the structures in question.
Evolutionists cannot account for the origins of any biological structure in nature, and their objections to
explaining these structures in terms of the fact of Creation have been shown to be invalid.

For that reason we can say that there was once such a thing as Darwinism, which claimed that living
things were full of "faulty" or "vestigial" organs.
Today, this theory has been discredited by scientific evidence.

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