Hi Beretta,
I like that you are using unattributed creationists from the 60's as your sources, it suggests a real interest in a proper scientific discussion.
Your statement ...
Beretta writes:
Take it away and patients complain; indeed the operation for its removal has time and again fallen into disrepute, only to be revived by some naive surgeon who really believes what the biologists have told him about this useless ”rudiment'.
Seems hauntingly similar to the quote given on
this page at 'Creation On The Web'.
Evan Shute in 1961, via creationontheweb writes:
Take it away and patients complain; indeed the operation for its removal has time and again fallen into disrepute, only to be revived by some naive surgeon who really believes what the biologists have told him about this useless ”rudiment
Is this coincidence? It seems unlikely since the rest of your post seems to have been directly lifted from the following paragraph. As far as I can tell you seem to have absolutely no supporting evidence for your claims about coccygectomy.
Do you have anything from the actual medical literature covering these preemptive coccygectomies? By far the majority of stuff I can find is to do with treating coccydynia, although I can see how a partial coccygectomy could accompany removal of a caudal appendage. There certainly doesn't seem to be anything suggestive of coccygectomy ever being treated as equivalent to a tonsilectomy.
But apart from that, well done on once again showing that creationists prefer cutting and pasting from unattributed sources to debate.
TTFN,
WK
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