Bugeyedcreepy
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Okay, even if that were the case (and I'm far from convinced), how about the vibrissal capsular muscles that some of us are still born with? It's not like we still have wiskers to feel around with. For that matter, how about the palamaris longus muscle that we have no use for - this is a throwback to our ancestors getting around in trees, but we have no use for it and most of us (about 85%) are born without it. I, however have passed the Palamaris Longus Test & have the muscle! Is an Intelligent Designer hedging his/her/its bets on us going back to trees sometime soon? or is it just a vestigial muscle that only 15% of us are born with? How about the Levator Claviculae muscle that only about 3% of the human population is born with these days? Every other great ape has it to help their chugging around the tree tops because it's a staple in arboreal locomotion - but we don't tree-swing, so why do we still have it (...or have it in the first place) if we never had that common ancestor? Last one for an Intelligent Designer, why, with a fused coccyx and all, would we even need to have an extensor caudae medialis in humans, are these fused bones in need of tail lifting anytime soon? Or would it make more sense if we evolved away from having a tail, and this is a left-over remnant?And while ear wiggling muscles may not serve an "important" function, those muscles do still reposition one's ears, which happens naturally when you're focusing on selecting a specific sound out of a group of sounds. They're also play a role in moving the rest of your face muscles around
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