Evolution is a theory people accept for different reasons even though the theory is crippled with multiple scientific inaccuracies and unproven assumptions. Here are some pertinent points:
Vestigial Organs—Evidence for Evolution? | Answers in Genesis
Next on the list of debunked formerly accepted scientific 'facts' mentioned in the various document submissions in the Scopes trial is that of vestigial organs. reputable modern scientists put no value whatsoever in speculations and suppositions about vestigial organs. But 100 or more years ago the issue of vestigial organs was a commonly accepted fact.
The List of “Vestigial Organs” Grows
In 1893 the German anatomist Robert Wiedersheim expanded Darwin’s list of “useless organs” to 86. Listed among Wiedersheim’s “vestigial” organs were such organs as the parathyroid, pineal and pituitary glands, as well as the thymus, tonsils, adenoids, appendix, third molars, and valves in veins.1 All of these organs have been subsequently shown to have useful functions and indeed some have functions essential for life.
Wiedersheim’s vestigial organs were presented as one of the so-called “proofs” of evolution in the famous Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925. Horatio Hackett Newman, a zoologist from the University of Chicago, stated on the witness stand that “there are, according to Robert Wiedersheim, no less than 180 [sic] vestigial structures in the human body, sufficient to make a man a veritable walking museum of antiquities.”2
Of interesting note, Horatio Newman misquoted Wiedersheim in the Scopes Trial submittals, falsely claiming Wiedersheim had speculated there were 180 vestigial organs in the human body when the truth was that Wiedersheim had only suggested there were 86 vestigial organs. Furthermore, when evolutionists realized the error, they went back and created a revised Wiedersheim estimation to match the new Scopes Trial number, rather than admit Newman had made a mistake.
That reminds me of several precincts in 2020 that reported more votes than there were registered voters, prompting embarrassed election officials to retroactively alter the books to give the impression that the numbers of voters had not been exceeded after all. Aren't leftists, evolutionists, and Democrats something?
