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Vestigial arguments: remnants of evolution
Doyle, S. 2008.  JC 22(2):40-42. CELD ID 22173

Abstract
'Vestigial' organs have been used as an argument against a designer for many years, and have been used as a major 'proof' of evolution. The 'vestigial organs' argument is merely a modified form of the 'bad design' argument. While it may sound scientific, it is in fact a theological argument. The argument essentially runs like this: God would not have originally created a degenerate form of biological structure X in creation A (as evidenced by more functional examples of structure A in other creations), therefore evolution did it.