Best evidence for Intelligent Design yet?

[Omniskeptical]

y'all are in for a surprise when you die and find out the soul was in the appendix

So says someone who has a rat as one's avatar.

[HMS_Beagle]

So says someone who has a rat as one's avatar.

At least rats don't have wisdom teeth that were designed to kill them.

[The Pixie]

Which people do routinely, with no ill effect.

Not true at all. The mucous membranes in the nose overload after such is done.

Can you find any support for your claim?

Here is a web page that goes through the risks, and they all seem to be related to the surgical procedure, rather than any problems associated with the absence of tonsils:

http://ent.about.com/od/livingwithen...t-Worth-It.htm

While you are at it, any reason to suppose not having an appendix is a problem?

[Roy]

Still have that. But had my tonsils removed twice.

Did you have them put back in?

[rogue06]

Did you have them put back in?

They grew back.

[shunyadragon]

poppycock
Roy

Maybe not:

[Omniskeptical]

At least rats don't have wisdom teeth that were designed to kill them.

Wisdom teeth are found in taller people, and taller people have more genetic defects.

[Yttrium]

Wisdom teeth are found in taller people, and taller people have more genetic defects.

You are truly a fountain of amazingly perplexing insight.

[Roy]

Maybe not:

Source: http://politicalblindspot.com/scientists-finally-discover-the-function-of-the-human-appendix/

Researchers now say that the appendix acts as a safe house for good bacteria. The body uses this to essentially “reboot” the digestive system when one suffers from a bout of dysentery or cholera.

Conventional wisdom used to claim that this small pouch protruding from the first part of the large intestine was simply redundant or an evolutionary shadow of a once useful organ. For years doctors advised people have their appendix removed and in spite of it’s now-apparent use, most seem none the worse for having it removed.

Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina researchers say that following a severe bout of cholera or dysentery, which can purge the gut of bacteria essential for digestion, the appendix acts as a reserve for good bacteria to emerge.

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Yes, I know about that. What has it got to do with Ominskeptical's nonsense about metering clumping bacteria?

Also, given the increase in sanitary hygiene practices and the reduced threat of cholera and dysentery - appendicitis is now more common than cholera - I suspect having an appendix is more likely to be fatal than beneficial.

Roy

[rogue06]

You are truly a fountain of amazingly perplexing insight.

What a delightfully pleasant way of saying that someone is full of bovine excrement.

[HMS_Beagle]

Wisdom teeth are found in taller people, and taller people have more genetic defects.

There's no evidence that having wisdom teeth correlate with height. But it's nice to see you're still extracting your "facts" from the same orifice you used to.

[Roy]

There's no evidence that having wisdom teeth correlate with height.

I disagree. There is a lot of evidence that having wisdom teeth correlates with height. It just disappears when age is eliminated as a variable.

Roy

[shunyadragon]

Yes, I know about that. What has it got to do with Ominskeptical's nonsense about metering clumping bacteria?

Also, given the increase in sanitary hygiene practices and the reduced threat of cholera and dysentery - appendicitis is now more common than cholera - I suspect having an appendix is more likely to be fatal than beneficial.

Roy

Well, medical technology may resurrect the need for the appendix. Antibiotics often tend to kill all the bacteria and sanitize the intestines requiring the appendix to restore friendly microbes.

[Roy]

Well, medical technology may resurrect the need for the appendix. Antibiotics often tend to kill all the bacteria and sanitize the intestines requiring the appendix to restore friendly microbes.

But what has this got to do with metering bacteria that clumps?

Roy

[HMS_Beagle]

I disagree. There is a lot of evidence that having wisdom teeth correlates with height. It just disappears when age is eliminated as a variable.

Roy

Good one.