Another Example of Evolution Hindering Medical Science

Owlhoots saddle up and ride for the Darwin brand despite knowing that evolution is actually harmful to science — especially medical science. They distribute evoporn with demonstrable falsehoods. The idea that they thymus was "vestigial" was clutched for many years.

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Stay with me on this side trail a little bit. One reason I chose the name of my primary site, Piltdown Superman, is that it's a mordant reminder that evolutionists were deceived by the Piltdown Man fraud for about forty years. When creationists point out this fact, Darwin's Flying Monkeys™ screech, "Yeah, but it was discovered by scientists, not creationists!" That is wrong on several levels, including the assumption that creationists are not scientists. Also, that no creationists were involved in refuting the fraud (which the evolutionist does not know). Such a remark is a very poor distraction: people were deceived for far too long, and proper scientific diligence was ignored.

Now we're back on the main trail. Creationists maintain that God does not make junk, nor did he use evolution to make humanity. Way back in 1900, a creationist lit a beacon fire to warn scientists that classifying organs and such that are not understood is detrimental to medical science. (I also insist that this is arguing from ignorance and arrogance: we don't have the foggiest notion what something does, so it must be an evolutionary leftover. What a bunch of malarkey!) Unfortunately, the naturalistic narrative was more important than the facts, so these organs — including the very important thymus — were ignored or worse.

The thymus was firmly documented as a functional human body organ only in 1961 by Jacques Miller. Miller’s discovery also laid the “foundation for immunology and modern medicine. Until that time, researchers mistakenly believed the thymus merely represented a remnant of defunct lymph tissue, something of an immune cell graveyard.” Actually, over a half century earlier, in 1900, Dr. Richard Sheldon observed that the “useless organ” belief has hampered progress in understanding human biology and anatomy. He reviewed the research on the function of organs that were widely regarded in 1900 as useless. The list he made included, not just the appendix, but that very puzzling organ– the thymus. His belief in an intelligent creator made him confident that they both had functions and were not useless leftovers as taught by most evolutionists then.

Over sixty years later, in 1961, Sheldon was vindicated by Jacques Miller’s discovery of immune responses being mediated by thymus-derived cells (now known as T-cells). In 2020 we now know that the thymus not only has a function, but a critical human-body function: the development of our immune system.  From this present-day vantage we can judge the long line of misleading evolutionary claims, such as by Nobel Laureate immunologist Sir Peter Medawar (1915-1987). His research on graft rejection and acquired immune tolerance are fundamental to tissue and organ transplants and as…

Head on over to the article with the odd title, "The Thymus: Vestigial Not!" to finish reading. You'll thank me later.