This organ was thought of by Darwin and others as a left over remnant of our evolutionary past and yet it is now known to be functional towards the immunological control of organisms in the gut. This is also like the other 180+ organs, which were once considered vestigial or rudimentary, and yet most, if not all, have been found to have purpose.
Another amazing concept about the appendix is that it widely occurs as vastly spread out over the theoretical evolutionary tree and it is thought by some researchers to have independently evolved between 18-32 times. Yet, just to develop only once would be remarkable enough but to do so this many times sounds more like divine tampering with a single Designer who used a common feature in a similar earthly environment in such a vast array.
Anyway, some may argue to the contrary regarding a Supreme Architect as so many people suffer from having appendicitis and therefore such criticism would seem to offset an Omni great God as a poor engineer and yet this condition is largely a result of abuse to the body by a highly refined present-day diet which is so unlike mankind’s original meal plan which subsisted of high fiber. Nonetheless, even with the loss of this enhancement the body was amazingly made to have backup system(s) to carry on this function, thou perhaps less efficient, which is like the multifunctional purpose of the liver which also produces bile or gall along with the gall bladder, so that even with the removal of the appendix and gall bladder a person can still live an unimpeded life, and in respect to mild cases of appendicitis, it usually responds to antibiotic treatment as the diet of modern man is circumvented by image bearers as through the application of contemporary medicine and surgical practices.
Finally, it’s amazing to me that which such perceptual advancements as becoming more knowledgeable about the revealed aspects of physiology that some would still suppress the truth about the Divine Power as unwilling to “remove” the vain theory of Naturalism as to the origin and conservation of life. Therefore, this cecal organ serves an ascending function, as reasoning with the grey matter against maintaining such senseless and irrational beliefs, which are inexcusable, in trying to prop up a dead and withered evolutionary tree which should have been felled long ago as providing a clear view in displaying the beautiful landscape of God’s glory.
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Permission granted by Creation Ministries International Ltd, P.O. Box 4545, Eight Mile Plains, Qld, 4113, Australia. Creation Magazine vol. 38, No.2, 2016 on excerpts taken from the article on “Appendix Affirms Creation” by David Catchpoole.