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1 - I think you've hit it on the head (oops! Freudian slip). We've been chopping it off for thousands of years so the need to shrink the thing into oblivian has ceased. Why evolute a needless piece of skin if it gets chopped anyway? By the way, I'm all for genetic engineering the pelts off men's backs. Great idea! Can we get the hair to stay on their heads, too? (Comment this)

2 - Spleen, anyone? That's a useful organ untouched by evolution. (Comment this)

3 - Funny you should ask. An online friend of mine was surfing the other day and found some gems. Check out the link, it'll answer all those pesky foresking questions. Ask me and I might give you a link to the blog she wrote on her findings. ;)

http://www.viafin-atlas.com/more_information.asp (Comment this)

4 - To finish that thought. Evolution and creation going hand in hand, this is proof that God is a man. (Comment this)

5 - WebMD is obviously biased towards removal of the foreskin, but after going through an ordeal involving my only boy child when he was born, I can promise you and your loyal blog readers, there is definitely a movement that says: A--the foreskin is there for a reason, and should be left alone, and B-it really isn't all that hard to care and keep the foreskin area clean. Women have lots of folds and hidden areas, and we manage!
When we had to make a decision on Prince Wylie's circumscision, I was very torn (no pun intended) about the whole scary mess. The idea of strapping his littel newborn self down to a board and cutting on his tiny little penis seems pretty barbaric to me. My dad is uncircumscised (his parents were Brits, where I suppose the Amercian notion of hyper cleanliness has not yet taken root, at least not in 1936), and my mom who is an RN with 30 years of experience taking care of plenty of geriatric men who were surely not all circumscised, tended to agree with her ex-husband (amazingly enough). So I did a lot of reading on the subject, both on the internet and at the library, and spoke about this at length with both Wylie's pediatrician and our OB who was to perform the delicate operation. They were both on the side of circumscision, becsue as many of you know, most doctors, do not feel parents are capable of caring for their children properly as far as this is concerned. I would say the country is not as convinced circumcision is always the right thing as WebMD and the American Pediatric Association are. These may be the same people who do not believe in vaccinations and immunization of course; Crazy homeschoolers, polygamists and homesteaders out in Utah or Idahoa, fraid of government conspiracy and intervention.
Of course, we did circumcise the Prince, so he could be like Daddy.
Great.

No offense to any crazy homeschoolers, or homesteaders-- I really admire your gumption, although I do take issue with
the polygamists. (Comment this)

6 - > I mean, go to any swimming pool in the summer, and you will see many examples of men who have not actually evolved out of the gorilla stage

We were never gorillas. Gorillas and humans have a common ancestor. But the common ancestor wasn't a gorilla.

> So if evolution is legit, then shouldn't the foreskin have fallen off by now??? I mean, people have been chopping it off for over 2000 years now.

Because evolution doesn't work that way. How could such a change in a species with such a large population size occur in such a short space of time? There is no known mechanism for this.

You could easily get a proper understanding of natural selection - a book from the library or something like Wikipedia on the net. But I suspect that you won't as you prefer your current understanding of it. (Comment this)

7 - tk, Ummmm, actually, it was kind of a joke.... (Comment this)