Re: What Darwin Wrote About THE EYE (Aye, Aye, Aye!)

From: Raymond E. Griffith (rgriffit_at_ctc.net)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:57:40 -0400

"Otis Brown" <otisbrown@pa.net> wrote in message
news:6dbddb9.0409200730.7fef2bfb@posting.google.com...
> Dear Steve,
>
> This sounds like a "creation versus evolution" debate.
>
> What I would suggest is that the natural eye is
> a very sophisticated system, and behaves that
> way -- when preceived through engineering
> (control-system) analyis.
>
> This is a great tribute to the Designer.
>
> Have I correctly mixed God's creation of the natural eye with equal
> respect for the Darwin's "evolutionary process"?

Well, except that the eye doesn't work very well for a large number of
people. If people were without glasses, you might see up to half the
population being functionally blind or practically illiterate. Glasses makes
up for what the Designer did not do.

What we *do* see in the creation is a nested hierarchy of eyes and eye
functions. We even see dramatically different types of eyes within the same
environment for creatures of very different lineages. Some confer much
better ability to see in their environment, and so avoid dangers and find
food.

Hmmm. Designer thinks: I don't like the way you look. Oh well, I'll use you
anyway, but here is a very minimal eye so that your kind will get eaten more
often. And here is a good eye to the creature who is going to getcha!

Of course, if one reads John 9 literally and applies Christ's answer about
*why* the man who was born blind was born that way, God has decided in
advance who will get good eyes and who will not. Are medical doctors who put
antibiotics into the eyes of babies thwarting God's plans? Are eye surgeons
who literally give sight back to the blind helping people to defy God? Are
vision specialists who determine what correction a person needs for their
vision arguing with the Great Designer? Somewhere the design is imperfect or
the mechanism is broken. If you wish to "credit" God with designing
imperfection, then ....

Regards,

Raymond E. Griffith

>
> Best,
>
> Otis
> Engineer
>
>
>
> hayesmstw@hotmail.com (Steve Hayes) wrote in message
news:<414dc59e.138154316@news.saix.net>...
> > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:14:27 GMT, Ed Conrad <edconrad@verizon.net>
wrote:
> >
> > ><
> > ><
> > >As you all know, there's currently a heated debate in the sci
> > >news groups about what Charles Darwin really said about
> > >the evolution of the eye.
> >
> > Really?
> >
> > I hadn't noticed.
> >
> > I thought it was all about anthropological theory.

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