HOW OUR EYES CAME TO BE

Persons who insist that eyes are so complicated that it took an intelligent designer to make them, deny obvious facts. Ophthalmologists look into an eye and see a poorly designed feature. The image is reflected upside down and backwards. Not nearly what an intelligent engineer would develop. The eye is a tool needed for survival in animals probably more than three hundred million years ago. The optic took several turns throughout evolution in animals and some were even dead ended, for example, in fish that live in total darkness with eyes that cannot see. Some creatures have several pair of eyes, neither of which function. Houseflies have hundreds of eyes. But they also have sticky feet, the better to walk on the ceiling. So what does that prove?

If we look at the facts, eyes evolved over time, in each species according to the needs toward survival. I think how lucky I am that I cannot see all the molecules in the air around me. I see what I need to see. We all do, if we are lucky. Medical technology progressed so that the cataracts I developed were slurped out with a laser and replaced with a clear lens allowing perfect vision. Great stuff, I'll say. An intelligent designer would have done it right the first time. Maybe. The first time didn't get it right, however. It took evolution some time to come up with me, to begin with, and parallel with my development, come up with eyes for me to better to see you, Grandma. (So said the wolf to Little Red Riding Hood.)

Naomi Sherer