<http://www.answersingenesis.org/search/default.aspx?qt=appendix&loadpage=query.html&charset=iso-8859-1&btnSearchGo.x=0&btnSearchGo.y=0>Jones Beene wrote: Amazing how much "face" 5 minutes of googling can save. Several reasonable arguments exist for the assertion that the appendix has a function in the human immune system. .Yes, Virginia..."vestigiality" is a real word... http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/vestiges/appendix.htmlGiven our current evolutionary knowledge, many biological structures can be considered vestiges. To paraphrase:The human vermiform appendix is one of the most commonly cited, and most disputed, vestigial structures. Evolutionary vestiges are, technically, any diminished structure that previously had a greater physiological significance in an ancestor than at present. Throughout medical history many possible functions for the appendix have been offered, examined, and refuted, including exocrine, endocrine, and neuromuscular functions (Williams and Myers 1994, pp. 28-29).Today, a growing consensus of medical specialists holds that the most likely candidate for the function of the human appendix is as a part of the gastrointestinal immune system.Several reasonable arguments exist for suspecting that the appendix may have a function in immunity. Like the rest of the caecum in humans and other primates, the appendix is highly vascular, is lymphoid-rich, and produces immune system cells normally involved with the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) (Fisher 2000; Nagler-Anderson 2001; Neiburger et al. 1976; Somekh et al. 2000; Spencer et al. 1985).
The talk origins paper is good but it does not look at the infant
appendix which is proportionally larger than the adult appendix. It
stops growing at about age 3 while everything else keeps growing. Talk
origins may choose to mention that fact some day. Here's what the
creationist have to say.
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