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‘… [[tonsillectomy]] is the most frequently performed piece of surgery. Doctors once thought [[tonsils]] were simply useless evolutionary leftovers and took them out thinking that it could do no harm. Today there is considerable evidence that there are more troubles in the upper respiratory tract ''after'' tonsil removal than before, and doctors generally agree that simple enlargement of tonsils is hardly an indication for [[surgery]]...’<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i2/vestigial.asp</ref>}}

‘… [[tonsillectomy]] is the most frequently performed piece of surgery. Doctors once thought [[tonsils]] were simply useless evolutionary leftovers and took them out thinking that it could do no harm. Today there is considerable evidence that there are more troubles in the upper respiratory tract ''after'' tonsil removal than before, and doctors generally agree that simple enlargement of tonsils is hardly an indication for [[surgery]]...’<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i2/vestigial.asp</ref>}}

Evolutionist claim that snakes have vestigial features.<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n7_v18/ai_19560108</ref> According to the science magazine ''[[New Scientist]]'':

Evolutionist claim that [[snake]]s have vestigial features.<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n7_v18/ai_19560108</ref> According to the science magazine ''[[New Scientist]]'':

{{cquote|Scientists have found fossils of a legged snake with “hips” – a specimen that could be the most primitive snake ever unearthed. The find suggests early snakes were not creatures of the sea and has reignited the debate over how snakes evolved.

{{cquote|Scientists have found fossils of a legged snake with “hips” – a specimen that could be the most primitive snake ever unearthed. The find suggests early snakes were not creatures of the sea and has reignited the debate over how snakes evolved.

{{cquote|Even assuming it could be established that the ancestor of snakes today had legs, creationists have no problem in principle with loss of features through natural processes. Development of leglessness is not evidence for molecules-to-man evolution, which requires addition of new genetic information. Loss of legs could be achieved through degeneration of the DNA information sequences that specify leg development....

{{cquote|Even assuming it could be established that the ancestor of snakes today had legs, creationists have no problem in principle with loss of features through natural processes. Development of leglessness is not evidence for molecules-to-man evolution, which requires addition of new genetic information. Loss of legs could be achieved through degeneration of the DNA information sequences that specify leg development....

AiG is cautious about comparing this fossil snake to the serpent in Genesis 3:14. First, we really don’t know much about the serpent’s anatomy anyway. Yet we can offer a reasonable guess that it apparently was once able to crawl or walk; after the serpent was cursed, it was pronounced that “on thy belly shalt thou go,” suggesting that it previously moved using appendages.5 Also, this fossil probably resulted during Noah’s Flood, an event that took place about 1,500 years after the serpent was cursed to crawl on its belly.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4250news3-20-2000.asp</ref>}}

AiG is cautious about comparing this fossil snake to the serpent in [[Genesis]] 3:14. First, we really don’t know much about the serpent’s anatomy anyway. Yet we can offer a reasonable guess that it apparently was once able to crawl or walk; after the serpent was cursed, it was pronounced that “on thy belly shalt thou go,” suggesting that it previously moved using appendages.5 Also, this fossil probably resulted during Noah’s Flood, an event that took place about 1,500 years after the serpent was cursed to crawl on its belly.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4250news3-20-2000.asp</ref>}}

Bible commentator Keith Krell states regarding the serpent in Genesis chapter 3 the following: "The text says the snake had to move on its belly. Some commentators take this literally and conclude that the snake had legs before God cursed it. Others take it figuratively, as a reference to the resultant despised condition of the snake."<ref>http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=4476#P30_15164</ref>

[[Bible]] commentator Keith Krell states regarding the serpent in Genesis chapter 3 the following: "The text says the snake had to move on its belly. Some commentators take this literally and conclude that the snake had legs before God cursed it. Others take it figuratively, as a reference to the resultant despised condition of the snake."<ref>http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=4476#P30_15164</ref>

==External Links==

==External Links==

*[http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/vestigialorgans.asp Vestigial Organs - Questions and Answers] by [[Answers in Genesis]]

*[http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/vestigialorgans.asp Vestigial Organs - Questions and Answers] by [[Answers in Genesis]]