tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776205147286643847.post5591742525906086031..comments2023-12-18T13:55:50.256-08:00Comments on Thinking as a Profession: Hitchens Discovers Blind Salamanders While Watching TVDerekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02776917750757825408noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776205147286643847.post-24103526070357344432013-01-02T07:41:25.077-08:002013-01-02T07:41:25.077-08:00Yet another "straw man" argument against...Yet another "straw man" argument against creationism. Evolutionists claiming the "vestigial organ" point never seem to bother to read any creationist comments on the issue. They just assume what has been claimed. It's very simple. The bible teaches we live in a fallen world where DNA can mutate, causing pre-existing features to lose function. So an animal loosing an eye fits just fine with a scientifically sound creationist viewpoint. So what if a feature goes away, mutations that "break" features is easy. Show me a new eye developing. Blind cave fish from different locales have been bred and sight returned as relative genes were replaced. Shows DNA has not had time to lose associated coding for sight that would have been eliminated over millions of years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776205147286643847.post-88204852350775833542008-07-21T23:47:00.000-07:002008-07-21T23:47:00.000-07:00I'm not buying it. He's never encountered the term...I'm not buying it. He's never encountered the term "vestigial" before? He could make the same argument about wisdom teeth, tailbones or the appendix - and that's just in humans. What about the wings of emus and ostriches? Surely none of these are news to Mr. Hitchens.<BR/><BR/>I think he's playing dumb to highlight his point.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021346110340833907noreply@blogger.com