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Tamara
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Message 1 of 7 (89445)
02-29-2004 6:41 PM


I just had to repost this from another forum I frequent.
Evolution mis-education in full force. And some people said here that calling those damn pouches gill slits does not matter! Arggh!
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Oh dear, I forgot!, I have more personal "proof" of human evolution.
Get this! On my neck, right above my sternum, I have two little holes in my neck, one on each side. They leak a mucus like fluid almost daily.
No, I am not kidding in any way shape or form! Above each opening there seems to be a "sack" or maybe a gland that produces this sticky stuff! I can run my finger along it and push the fluid out of it at will.
The medical explanation of this is as follows:
When a human fetus is growing in it's mother's womb, it seems to go through all the various stages of evolutionary growth. Single cell; multiple cell; fish; and so on.
During the "fish" stage the fetus actually has gills (although inoperative).
Well, the doc says mine never completely went away, I WAS born with them. He said that this is not an uncommon occurence, and that I was lucky that the active fluid glands have an opening, or they would have had to surgically remove the glands so as not to allow the fluid to build up inside my neck. Actually, one of my brothers also has these "things", but his are much less active than mine.

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Tamara
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Message 5 of 7 (89467)
02-29-2004 8:25 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by Sylas
02-29-2004 7:41 PM


no, it's not me
Actually, I thought it was pretty hilarious. No, it's not me. (I will try indent tags next time.)
As for the condition itself, I saw a post somewhere on the web from a doctor saying that babies do get born with holes that are unclosed remains of the invaginations between pharyngeal pouches.
The point is, the person in question understood his doctor to tell him these were the remains of gills. I elsewhere on this board also mentioned a book for kids on evolution published in 1990 that also claimed human embryos have gills. I am merely reposting this for the regaling of those who think that calling the pouches gill slits does no damage whatsoever. In fact, I am starting to think that if we took a poll on the street, more people would think that human embryos have gills than not. And not just old fogies mis-educated long ago...!

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