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CHAPTER 21.
CHAPTER 21.

EVOLUTIONISTS' CONFESSIONS
STATING THAT THERE IS NO SUCH
THING AS A VESTIGIAL ORGAN

T he idea of vestigial organs is not a scientific one. According to
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that claim, the bodies of living things contain organs inherited
from their forebearers, but that have gradually lost their func-
tions through lack of use.
This is most definitely not a scientific claim, because it was based on ig-
norance. Functionless organs are ones whose function has not yet been iden-
tified. As always, evolutionists use these organs, whose functions have not
yet been established, as vehicles of speculation for their own theories . The
best indication of this has been the continued shrinkage of the list of vesti-
gial organs proposed by evolutionists. It has now been established that those
organs originally described as vestigial actually possess wide-ranging func-
tions, and this claim has been comprehensively refuted. But nonetheless,
evolutionists still hide behind this claim in order not to have to relinquish
this important vehicle for speculation and to deceive people lacking a
knowledge of the subject. (For detailed information see, Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism, Harun Yahya)

Charles Darwin:
There remains, however, this difficulty. After an organ has ceased being used,
and has become in consequence much reduced, how can it be still further re-
duced in size until the merest vestige is left; and how can it be finally quite oblit-
erated? It is scarcely possible that disuse can go on producing any further effect
after the organ has once been rendered functionless. 401
S. R. Scadding is an evolutionist zoologist at the University of
Guelph, Ontario:
Since it is not possible to unambiguously identify useless structures, and since
the structure of the argument used is not scientifically valid, I conclude that
"vestigial organs" provide no special evidence for the theory of evolution. 402