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The Miracle Of The Eye

Charles Darwin described the eye as one of the greatest challenges to his theory. How could he explain it?  

The eye, after all, is simply incompatible with evolution. “To suppose,” he admitted, “that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree” (Origin of Species. 146).

Jesus said the “the lamp of the body is the eye” (Matt. 6:22). Jacob Bronowski wrote that, “if you compare a human being with even the most sharp-eyed of the great apes, say with a chimpanzee, our vision is incredibly more delicate. Their ability to discriminate fine details (which can be tested in a very simple way) is not comparable with that of human beings” (The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, 1978, pp. 12-13).

The human eye possesses 130 million light sensitive rods and cones that convert light into chemical impulses. These signals travel at a rate of a billion per second to the brain.

The essential problems for Darwinists is how so many intricate components could have independently evolved to work together perfectly when, if a single component didn’t function perfectly, nothing would work at all.

Think about it. Partial transitional structures are no aid to a creatures’ survival and may even be a hindrance. If they are a hindrance, no further gradual development would occur because the creature would, according to advocates of natural selection, be less apt to survive than the other creatures around him. What good is half a wing or an eye without a retina? Consequently, either such structures, as feathered wings must have appeared all at once, either by absurdly implausible massive mutations (“hopeful monsters,” as scientist refer to such hypothetical creatures) or by creation.

“How it is quite evident,” says Francie Hitching, “that if the slightest things go wrong en route – if the cornea is fuzzy or the pupil fails to dilate, or the lens becomes opaque, or the focusing goes wrong – then a recognizable image is not formed. The eye either functions as a whole, or not at all.

“So how did it come to evolve by slow, steady, infinitesimally small Darwinian improvement? Is it really possible that thousands upon thousands of luck chance mutations happened coincidentally so that the lens and the retina, which cannot work without each other evolved in synchrony? What survival value can there be in an eye that doesn’t see?

“Small wonder that it troubled Darwin. “To this day the eye makes me shudder,” (Darwin) wrote to his botanist friend Asa Gray in February, 1860 (The Neck of the Giraffe, 1982, p. 86).

Incredible as the eye is, consider that we have not one but two of them. This matched pair, coupled with an interpretive center in the brain, allows us to determine distances to the objects we see. Our eyes also have the ability to focus automatically by elongating or compressing themselves. They are also inset beneath a bony brow that, along with automatic shutters in the form of eyelids, proved protection for these intricate and delicate organs.

Darwin should have considered two passages in the Bible. The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord had made them both,” wrote King Solomon (Prov. 20:12). Psalm 94:9 asks: “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?”

The same can be said of the brain, nose, palate and dozens of other complex and highly developed organs in any human or animal. It would take a quantum leap of faith to think all this just evolved. Yet that is commonly taught and accepted.

After reviewing the improbability of such organs arising in nature from an evolutionary process, Professor H.S. Lipson, a member of the British Institute of Physics, wrote in 1980: “We must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it” (Physics Bulletin, vol. 30, p. 140).

 
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