What If No One Had an Appendix?

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By Ken Ham

The appendix—“a useless artifact of evolution”? We’ve heard that old, debunked claim over and over (and over!) again. I was taught this false claim when I went to university in the 1970s. Well, a recent article contained a thought experiment about what life might be like if this organ had never “evolved”—and they concluded that “you’d see a lot more people dying of infectious diseases than they would otherwise.” Why?

Well, because the appendix is far from a useless vestige of our imaginary evolutionary ancestry! While, of course, you can live without it, it’s a very useful organ with a …read more

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