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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?
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