Category: Human Origins
How the Darwinian View of Human “Tails” Leads to Harmful Medical Practices
Darwin-defenders like Karl Giberson have used the rare phenomenon of babies born with supposed “tails” as evidence for common descent.
Are Human Tails Mere “Vestigial” or “Benign” Structures Born to “Otherwise Healthy” Babies?
Prominent medical researchers on the “human tail” now see it as “a disturbance in the development of the embryo” not “a regression in the evolutionary process.”
Early Human Religion: A 747 Built in the Basement with an X-Acto Knife
The little we know of early religion was not predicted by naturalist theses — and has not confirmed any of them.
Do Human “Tails” Represent the Simple “Turning On” of Genes Retained from Our Ancestors?
Karl Giberson wants us to think that true tails are some kind of a regression to an earlier form.
Are Humans Ever Born with “Perfectly Formed” Tails?
In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin cited the tailbone (coccyx) as a supposed vestigial feature.