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#1057294
Thinking Allowed
Merriam-Webster says you're wrong.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/tailbone
Main Entry: tail·bone
Pronunciation: \-'bon, -?bon\
Function: noun
1 : a caudal vertebra
2 : coccyx
11/15/2009 5:51:12 PM
#1057311
Pule Thamex
Future paleontologists will wonder why some human fossils skulls from the religious centuries have slack fitting jaw bones that seem to have been heavily eroded by excess drool.
11/15/2009 6:04:02 PM
#1057323
Doubting Thomas
Um, mammals' tails have muscles, too. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to move them, like dogs wagging their tails for instance.
11/15/2009 6:13:29 PM
#1057341
WMDKitty
ANATOMY FAIL!
The coccyx is, in fact, the remnant of a tail.
11/15/2009 6:25:32 PM
#1057384
AuraTwilight
Um...we have chimpanzees right now. We don't need fossils of them, retard.
11/15/2009 6:56:26 PM
#1057409
Old Viking
The coccyx isn't a tail bone, and your appendix is good for you.
11/15/2009 7:32:14 PM
#1057441
BobsOldSocks
"There is no fossil record for chimpanzee's..."
There is, however, a fossil record for the ancestors of chimpanzees (note the lack of apostrophe) and humans. They're one and the same.
"...similarities no way prove same kind or prove shared common ancestor."
Yes they do. Ever heard of the nested hierarchy of life? Thought not.
"The coccyx is not a tail bone..."
You're right it's not, it's a vestigial tail bone.
"...it is a part of the pelvis that anchors several muscles."
While also being the remnants of a tail.
11/15/2009 8:26:02 PM
#1057462
Thejebusfire
Biology fail.
11/15/2009 9:41:05 PM
#1057476
Zoo
It's actually 3 to 5 tail bones all stuck together. It would do you good to get it through your head that vestigial does not necessarily mean useless.
11/15/2009 10:08:18 PM
#1057483
Vesper
And further more, MC2 =/= E!
MC^2=E.
Biology AND physics FAIL.
Get thee to a middle school!
11/15/2009 10:37:31 PM
#1057490
GodotIsWaiting4U
And so are tails! They're part of the pelvis of creatures that possess them, and they anchor several muscles! Please, try not to get your biology from Jack Chick.
11/15/2009 10:42:09 PM
#1057511
aaa
Who writes this crap?
11/15/2009 11:16:04 PM
#1057526
Professor M
I wonder if "MC2 = E" could actually derive the formula for mass-energy from the basics of special relativity or if s/h/it just thinks that memorizing a short formula makes you smart. (I mean, dude, it's lower-division physics!)
11/15/2009 11:57:56 PM
#1057534
The X-Rays showing the fractured coccyx I suffered as a child say otherwise.
11/16/2009 1:06:38 AM
#1057537
Quantum Mechanic
fail
11/16/2009 1:19:23 AM
#1057558
Apocraphy
Ignorant or lying or both
11/16/2009 3:23:08 AM
#1057572
The L
If the coccyx is not a tail bone, then how come
1. Other animals' tail bones are structured in exactly the same way as the coccyx
2. Some humans have been born with tails within the last century?
Take as long as you need, then get back to me.
11/16/2009 5:17:52 AM
#1057577
Serph-no-Okami
E=MC2! Coccyx! Pelvis! Me so smrt!
It's always funny when people use big words to try and sound smart, and then fail massively because of some basic flaw :)
11/16/2009 5:26:52 AM
#1057593
Percy Q. Shunn
Isn't it about time for fundies to start mining a new layer of stupid?
11/16/2009 6:27:37 AM
#1057600
Mister Spak
anatomy fail.
11/16/2009 6:33:58 AM
#1057638
Orion
Find a chimp. Kill it. Now its a fossil.
Wow that was easy!
11/16/2009 7:59:28 AM
#1057640
John
But HERVs and shared pseudogenes prove common ancestors. The coccyx is part of the vertebral column, not the pelvis.
11/16/2009 8:01:27 AM
#1057649
JohnTheAtheist
The funny thing is that even if there was not one single fossil we can still prove evolution you dim wit.
You should check out the work being done in evolutionary genetics, especially the part about viral RNA. Pretty cool.
11/16/2009 8:49:19 AM
#1057664
Clown
Wrong, so wrong I could earn millions selling your failure to creationists.
11/16/2009 9:18:53 AM
#1057787
Brianisha
Fail in science!
11/16/2009 11:39:56 AM
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