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Discovery Magazine 6/1/2013  Vestigial Organs: Evolution's Left-
Overs or Evolutionists' Ignorance?  If evolution were true, your
great, great, great, great…grandfather was a creature like an
ape or a monkey, and you came from him. Over the years, your
ancestors gradually changed or evolved from looking like an ape
to looking like humans. Your ape-like, distant grandfather, like
many primates today, probably would have had a tail, a big jaw,
and a lot of hair. He probably also had several other organs you
either do not have today, or you have, but unlike him, you do
not really need anymore. Those organs which you would no longer
need are called vestigial (ves-TI-jul) organs by evolutionists.
If evolution is true, then such organs should exist.  In 1895,
an evolutionist named Robert Wiedersheim made a list of 86
different organs that he thought were vestigial—organs that
supported the idea tha