Sunday, January 21, 2007

Rational Responders # 10 - Premise 2


The eye is another incredible biological adaptation. The ingenuity of the eye is evidence of a master Designer. It is a complex image capture mechanism. Each eye has 125 million visual receptors.
In an 1861 letter to the great American biologist, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin admitted that "The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder."
Michael Denton in his book Evolution: A Theory In Crisis suggests that the momentary feeling of doubt experienced by Darwin is likely shared by most biologists .....
"... to common sense it does indeed appear absurd to propose that chance could have thrown together devices of such complexity and ingenuity that they appear to represent the very epitome of perfection. There can hardly be a student of human physiology who has not on occasion been struck by the sheer brilliance apparent in the design of so many physiological adaptions." (Adler & Adler, 1985, page 327.)

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