Adrian, I've just been checking my book 'The Case for a Creator' - Lee Strobel and he mentions the supposed bad design of the eye. In chapter 4 he interviews Stephen C. Meyer Phd and they discuss the eye. Meyer in response to Strobel remarking about the 'botched design' says:
' There's an important physiological reason as to why the retina has to be inverted in the eye....Within the overall design of the system, it's a trade-off that allows the eye to process the vast amount of oxygen it needs in vertebrates. Yes, this creates a slight blind spot, but that's not a problem because people have two eyes and two blind spots don't overlap. Actually, the eye is an incredible design.'
The book also goes on to mention biologist George Ayoub a professor whose expertise is the cellular physiology of the retina, who wrote an article to refute the claim that the eye was badly created. Ayoub concludes:
'The vertebrate retina provides an excellent example of functional - though non-intuitive - design. The design of the retina is responsible for its high acuity and sensitivity. It is simply untrue that the retina is demonstrably suboptimal, nor is it easy to conceive how it might be modified without significantly decreasing its function.'
I'm checking to see if I can find anything about the air way problems.
regards Catherine
' There's an important physiological reason as to why the retina has to be inverted in the eye....Within the overall design of the system, it's a trade-off that allows the eye to process the vast amount of oxygen it needs in vertebrates. Yes, this creates a slight blind spot, but that's not a problem because people have two eyes and two blind spots don't overlap. Actually, the eye is an incredible design.'
The book also goes on to mention biologist George Ayoub a professor whose expertise is the cellular physiology of the retina, who wrote an article to refute the claim that the eye was badly created. Ayoub concludes:
'The vertebrate retina provides an excellent example of functional - though non-intuitive - design. The design of the retina is responsible for its high acuity and sensitivity. It is simply untrue that the retina is demonstrably suboptimal, nor is it easy to conceive how it might be modified without significantly decreasing its function.'
I'm checking to see if I can find anything about the air way problems.
regards Catherine
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
Albert Einstein
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