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"Vestigial" does not mean "useless". It is a descriptor used in identifying parts that no longer perform their original function.
And how is the "original function" determined? By assuming they evolved. This is another example of circular reasoning.

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Also, how do they know that these bones "were" hindlimbs in the first place? Again this is based on huge assumptions. These bones in comparison with the whale are very small. The body of a whale is immense and these bones attached to the pelvis serve functions that the evolutionist seems to be ignoring as having any other function other than being "leftovers", because they have already decided that whales were once land dwelling animals, therefore these bones must be the remnants of hindlimbs. How do they know this? If these bones were hind-limbs, then where are the front ones? Unless of course this apparent once land dwelling animals walked around on only hind legs ;-) Oh no that's right, the front legs evolved into.....flippers!!! (according to the evolutionist).

So you are saying that evolutionists looked at whales, then determined that they must have been land animals once, as just a guess? What did they do...flip a coin? I guess the coin didn't flip in favor of fish.
Unwilling or unable to identify the assumption.

I notice that neither definition of "vestigial" is useful. One relies upon circular reasoning and the other upon ignorance (& hope of the perpetuation of ignorance).
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Common design does not account for the same changes caused by endogenous retroviruses in animals that are related to each other.
Really? According to whom? LinearAQ, talkdeceptions, AIG?

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"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
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