Scopes Monkey Trial Part Deux

What's the matter with Kansas? In Topeka, there will be an evolution vs. creationism (intelligent designer, cosmic tinkerer, WHATEVER the fundies are calling it this year) debate 80 frikkin' years after this had been settled in the scopes trial in Tennessee. CLICK HERE

OK, ya'll that think evolution is just a theory, convince me. Try answering the following:

• Why do we have vestigil fingers on our feet?
• Why do so many human infants get born with tail stubs?
• Why do we have the masoidic assembly?
• Why do our nasal passages drain into our lungs?
• Why are our ankles so damn thin and weak compared to our weight and height?
• Why are our ribs designed to carry weight horizontally?
• What about an entire fossil record dated by carbon that breaks down at a measurable rate?

Whales with legs; snakes with legs; snakes with one atrophied lung; embryonic gill slits in ALL land animals; the human jaw too small for the number of teeth it holds (i.e. impacted wisdom teeth).

Why would God make these worthless, and often dangerous, vestigil features?

I've yet to hear a Creationist offer any rational explanation for the above.
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So . . . geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species representing changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species.

Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together.
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Finally: You CAN be religious and believe in evolution. More on that later.

-Prodigal Son