SCIENTISTS HAVE ONCE AGAIN MISLEAD US -
All the cool scientists are suddenly jumping on the "appendix is not really a useless internal organ" bandwagon.
Almost 500 years ago Charles Darwin proclaimed that the appendix was nothing but a leftover organ from back before humans evolved from giant chickens. Now, modern day scientists, armed with ultrasound, laser beams, and the internet have discovered that the appendix is a vital organ, and that anyone who has had their appendix removed will someday die.
What some people don't understand is that science is not really a reliable source of knowledge about what's really happening. What scientists do is say "I think that blah blah blah is a true fact, so I am going to formulate a hypothesis and do a bunch of tests and make a theory about it". So then they announce this theory, which is strictly theoretical in nature, and write a real thick paper with about 20,000 random made up words and no pictures. They do this to make sure that nobody reads the thing.
Then they write something for the news people that summarizes the theory for the "common joe six pack dingaling" population. They will typically say something like "and then the particles loop around the sun, acting as as a refunctioning vapor, much like a collar around a dog's neck". And then everybody says "oh, I get it. It's just like a dog collar".
So anyway, time to get back to the appendix. A scientist named William
Parker sums it up like this: "If Darwin had been aware of the species that have an appendix attached to a
large cecum, and if he had known about the widespread nature of the appendix, he
probably would not have thought of the appendix as a vestige of evolution."
This means "if we had known that people's appendixes were useful internal organs, then we wouldn't have thought they were not useful internal organs"
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