“Shocking human tail surgically removed from newborn,” the headlines proclaimed.
According to news reports, a baby boy was recently born in Brazil with a
“human tail with a ball at the end of it.” The report even went so far
as to call this a “real human tail”—but is that what it really is?
Well, the article states (note how evolutionary the terminology sounds—really, what they call a “tail” isn’t a tail at all but the critically important coccyx where the muscles will attach later in development):
Around the fourth week of gestation, most of us start to grow a tail while in the womb, but it usually disappears by the eighth week, eventually morphing into the tailbone, otherwise known as the coccyx.
And, of course, at the end of the article, it links back to our supposed evolutionary history,
It is thought our ancestors originally had some form of a tail, but we evolved as a species over time without the need for the organ, so we no longer grow them.
Q: But what’s really going on here?
A: As an unborn child develops in his or
her mother’s womb, the end of the spine sticks out noticeably early in
development. This has nothing to do with evolution—it’s
never going to develop into an actual tail. Rather, the supposed
“tail-like” appearance is because the muscles and limbs have yet to
develop. Once they do, they surround the coccyx, and it ends up inside
the child’s body.
It’s an abnormality in embryonic development (as a result of our groaning world because of our sin, according to For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Romans 8:22)." AIG
