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The testes, however, begin development in the abdomen. When the fetus is six or seven months old, they migrate down into the scrotum through two channels called the inguinal canals, removing them from the damaging heat of the rest of the body. Those canals leave weak spots in the body wall that make men prone to inguinal hernias. These hernias are bad: they can obstruct the intestine, and sometimes caused death in the years before surgery. No intelligent designer would have given us this tortuous testicular journey. We’re stuck with it because we inherited our developmental program for making ...more
Joshua Dunham
This is a typical attack on Creation and ID. For years, the argument that there are "poor designs" and "vestigial organs" that are useless within organisms has been used to support evolution. In 1893 anatomist Robert Wiedersheim listed 180 organs in these categories. Over the last few decades, most, if not all have been proven to have function. I don't personally know about the "testes" argument - and I'm not going to waste my time with it because it's another lame attempt to deter people asking about actual evidence for evolution and not theological arguments about what God would and wouldn't do. Article for more information: https://creation.com/vestigial-arguments-remnants-of-evolution
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