The Appendix/Cave Fish Eyes/Etc. are (NOT) vestigial

[pevaquark (Matthew Pevarnik)]

@cwhenderson already helped clarify what it means to be vestigial.

Here’s a thread from earlier this year beginning with an excellent explanation from @T_aquaticus:

Is there any coherent creationist explanation for vestigial organs?

I like to point out the fact that vestigial organs are consistent with the phylogeny of the larger group. Whales belong to the mammal clade, and they have vestigial mammal limbs which the theory of evolution predicts were present in their ancestors. What we don’t see are vestigial organs that contradict the proposed evolutionary history of a species, such as vestigial feathers in a mammal species or vestigial nipples in a bird species. The evidence we derive from vestigial organs is not thei…