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They knew the human appendix did a job sixty years ago, actually

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Instead of just being on the payroll.

With respect to “Your appendix: The king of vestigial organs has a job again,” Norbert “Doc Gator” Smith comments,

Excellent, but this has been well known for over 60 years. I mentioned it in my recent book, Evolution has Failed. Here is the citation:

Over sixty years ago we find these words from the prestigious Quarterly Review of Biology, “There is no longer any justification for regarding the vermiform appendix as a vestigial structure” (Straus, 1947).

Sure, Doc Gator, but Darwin’s men needed a vestigial organ that people knew about (“She got her appendix out last summer …”), and the rest is just “Defend Evolution: 13 Key Talking Points.”

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