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re: Missouri Bill Would Warn Parents of Evolution Boogeyman
Posted on 2/22/14 at 2:59 pm to Roger Klarvin
Posted on 2/22/14 at 2:59 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Our bodies naturally replenish gut flora with far more efficient mechanisms.
quote:Would you like to talk Sickle Cell Anemia and malaria next?
The new theory, proposed by surgeons and immunologists at the Duke University School of Medicine, says that people throughout most of human history lived in small, spread out groups. As a result, their contact with other people was far more limited than it is today in modern industrialized societies. Today, if a person's digestive tract lacks helpful bacteria, they can regain the needed germs from contact with large numbers of other people. In times when populations were less dense, and cholera epidemics purged large numbers of people's useful digestive bacteria, the appendix was able to restore the digestive system's supply of helpful germs.
"[The appendix] acts as a good safe house for bacteria," said Duke surgery professor Bill Parker, a co-author in the study. He said the appendix's location--below the one-way passage of food and germs through the large intestine in a digestive cul-de-sac--helps validate the theory. The worm-shaped appendage also acts to manufacture these helpful germs, Parker said.
Parker added that in less developed societies with lower population densities, the appendix may still be useful and rates of appendicitis are lower. However, regardless of the appendix's apparent function, Parker confirmed that those suffering from appendicitis should still have it removed.
Scientists not affiliated with the study have come out in favor of the theory. Brandeis University biochemistry professor Douglas Theobald said the idea was the most likely purpose of the appendix. "It makes evolutionary sense."
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Posted on 2/22/14 at 3:11 pm to NC_Tigah
1: I never claimed the appendix had no function. If it didnt, we wouldnt still have one.
2: While the research is fascinating, the fact still remains that there is no evidence that those without an appendix are at higher risk of disease including no increased risk of antimicrobial enterocolitis. Additionally, your link did nothing to disprove my statement which you quoted. We replenish gut bacteria through ingestion of sustinance, through bacterial penetration through the rectum, trough spontaneous microbacterial processes which surviving bacteria use to quickly increase their numbers for mutual gain in the GI tract, through the gallbladder, etc.
3: The issue of a perfect creator creating imperfection is still on the table, unaddressed by you.
So adorable
Comparing the advantages of a heterozygous sickle cell trait to the human appendix reflects a poor understanding of both. Those who are heterozygous for the sickle cell trait are at minimal risk from complications unless they live at very high altitudes or are in involved in extreme athletic exertion, neither of which applies to the people dying of malaria in Africa. Malaria on the other hand is extremely deletarious and common.
This is in contrast to the appendix, which provides minimal benefit but relatively significant risk.
2: While the research is fascinating, the fact still remains that there is no evidence that those without an appendix are at higher risk of disease including no increased risk of antimicrobial enterocolitis. Additionally, your link did nothing to disprove my statement which you quoted. We replenish gut bacteria through ingestion of sustinance, through bacterial penetration through the rectum, trough spontaneous microbacterial processes which surviving bacteria use to quickly increase their numbers for mutual gain in the GI tract, through the gallbladder, etc.
3: The issue of a perfect creator creating imperfection is still on the table, unaddressed by you.
quote:
Would you like to talk Sickle Cell Anemia and malaria next?
So adorable
Comparing the advantages of a heterozygous sickle cell trait to the human appendix reflects a poor understanding of both. Those who are heterozygous for the sickle cell trait are at minimal risk from complications unless they live at very high altitudes or are in involved in extreme athletic exertion, neither of which applies to the people dying of malaria in Africa. Malaria on the other hand is extremely deletarious and common.
This is in contrast to the appendix, which provides minimal benefit but relatively significant risk.
This post was edited on 2/22/14 at 3:17 pm
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