Vestigial organs may have functions (Talk.Origins)

Claim CB360:

Practically all "vestigial" organs in man have been shown to have definite uses and not to be vestigial at all.

'Source:
 * Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Green Forest, AR: Master Books, pp. 75-76.

CreationWiki response:

Talk Origins argument is flawed because similar designs are often used for radically different purposes. For example, the wheel is used in numerous applications, including locomotion, steering, bending things, adjusting power on electrical devices and much more. The fact that two organisms have similar structures that are designed to do different things is not an argument against design since humans also design in the same way. Besides, why should a designer throw away a perfectly useful design?

Talk Origins is using circular reasoning here. In most cases the idea that a given organ is vestigial, is a purely evolutionary interpretation. Simply put, you have to start with the assumption that the organism evolved from something else. The result is that the vestigial label is an interpretation but not objective evidence.

Those so called vestigial organs that have functions can be explained by economy of design. That is using similar parts whenever possible, this happens in design all the time. The few non-functional examples can be explained by decay.

Wrong! Developing new complex organs that have no previous genetic information, would still be incompatible with creation.

Wrong! It demonstrates that the organ has no survival benefit for the organism, not that it is useless. Sex organs have no survival value to the individual organism; they can be removed without harming survival. In fact many animals are killed each year fighting over mates. In human society wars have been fought over women.