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Examples of vestigial structures include, but are not limited to, the [[human]] [[appendix]]<ref>http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11555</ref>, the [[wing]]s of an [[ostrich]], the [[pelvis|pelvic]] bones of [[whale]]s and [[boa]]s <ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Boa</ref>, and the [[eye]]s of the [[mole]] and cave-dwelling [[salamander]]s.<ref>http://www.bookrags.com/research/vestigial-structures-wap/</ref>

Examples of vestigial structures include, but are not limited to, the [[human]] [[appendix]]<ref>http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11555</ref>, the [[wing]]s of an [[ostrich]], the [[pelvis|pelvic]] bones of [[whale]]s and [[boa]]s <ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Boa</ref>, and the [[eye]]s of the [[mole]] and cave-dwelling [[salamander]]s.<ref>http://www.bookrags.com/research/vestigial-structures-wap/</ref>

In the view of secular evolutionists, vestigial structures are some of the best evidence in favor of [[evolution]] and against [[Intelligent Design]] because they believe they are explained by [[natural selection]], but it is difficult to justify why an intelligent [[creator]] would include seemingly useless structures in the design of [[organism]]s.  Proponents of a creation or intelligent design model would counter that current human knowledge is finite and seemingly useless does not mean it doesn't have a meaningful function that has currently not been discovered.  Indeed, other structures believed to be useless in the past were later found to have uses.  In the case of [[creationists]], there is the added element of [[the fall]], where it is understood current conditions are not the way God originally designed. Natural selection is also a two way street.  Why wouldn't the structures that serve no discernable purpose been weeded out over millions of years of evolution?

In the view of secular evolutionists, vestigial structures are some of the best evidence in favor of [[evolution]] and against [[Intelligent Design]] because they believe they are explained by [[natural selection]], but it is difficult to justify why an intelligent [[creator]] would include seemingly useless structures in the design of [[organism]]s.  Proponents of a creation or intelligent design model would counter that even if science is not currently able to determine the function of a particular structure, that does not constitute evidence that the structure has no function.  It only means that science is not able to determine the function using current methods.  Indeed, other structures believed to be useless in the past were later found to have definite functions.  Such structures include the [[tonsils]], [[thymus]], and [[pineal gland]] among many others. The tonsils were found to help fight infection, and the thymus and pineal gland were both found secrete important hormones.<ref>http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/embryology_02.html#313</ref> In the case of [[creationists]], there is the added element of [[the fall]], where it is understood current conditions are not the way God originally designed.  

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