AIG says something similar:
Creationists understand that there has been degeneration and mutation since the Fall. We also expect that there would be a significant loss of information for many genes. The loss of genes for organs that do not significantly impact survival in a negative way could be quite prevalent. Thus, for the creationist, there should be no problem with an organ or structure in man that has lost some functionality. However, another possibility is that we have just not determined or understood the function properly yet.
Seems odd, doesn't it, that the Fall would cause God's perfect creatures to "degenerate" and mutate. Is everything on a path to oblivion, according to them? There seems to be a (typical) assumption here that all mutations are deleterious. Notice also (as has been observed early in this thread) the belief that vestigial organs must have no useful function.
Another interesting source for similar is
Conservapedia. Among its claims:
Even assuming it could be established that the ancestor of snakes today had legs, creationists have no problem in principle with loss of features through natural processes. Development of leglessness is not evidence for molecules-to-man evolution, which requires addition of new genetic information. Loss of legs could be achieved through degeneration of the DNA information sequences that specify leg development
Gosh it's a lucky thing that this "degeneration of DNA information sequences" only happened to snakes -- sounds like it could happen to any poor creature! And boy howdy, leglessness does not prove evolution -- a devastating well-supported factually-based argument.
However, this argument ignores the counter argument of the fall, where it is understood that current conditions are not the way God originally designed, and that vestigial structures are, if anything, evidence for devolution, not evolution
Yet another comment about the magical Fall initiating "degeneration," and curiously again, no evidence for this whatsoever.
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