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What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 12:55 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...111538.htm
Quote:Most animals react to light and have developed a very sophisticated way of seeing complex images so that they can function in their surroundings. Good examples include insects' compound eyes and the human eye. Charles Darwin and other evolutionary biologists were bewildered by the eye's complexity and wondered how this kind of structure could have evolved through natural selection.
But some creatures, such as sea urchins, can react to light even though they do not have eyes. Previous studies of sea urchins have shown that they have a large number of genes linked to the development of the retina, which is the light-sensitive tissue in the human eye. This means that sea urchins have several genes that are coded for a widely occurring eye protein, opsin.
Fundies will be back to proclaim how the human eye is the pinnacle of "creation" of course.
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 12:57 pm
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2011 at 12:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Living creatures have found ways to make use of photo-reactive cells since the dawn of time. Flora has no use for eyes but plenty of use for chloroplasts, all forms of higher life depend on just such a use.
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Ssshhh...what will jesus think?
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I don't even have to ask what jesus thinks about plants. He force choked a tree ffs!
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 2:26 pm
(September 12, 2011 at 1:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Ssshhh...what will jesus think?
If he thought, he wouldn't have ended up nailed to a plank like a ghastly specimen of dilusional mental illness.
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Good point, Chuck.
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Cool stuff. I never knew that before.
Since sea urchins do not have eyes, evolution made them in such a way so that they can 'see' with their whole bodies. A theist such as myself, however, could also argue that their ability to see even without having eyes is one of the possible signs of intelligent design (while viewing evolution as a means of creation).
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 3:39 pm
(September 12, 2011 at 3:38 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Cool stuff. I never knew that before.
Since sea urchins do not have eyes, evolution made them in such a way so that they can 'see' with their whole bodies. A theist such as myself, however, could also argue that their ability to see even without having eyes is one of the possible signs of intelligent design (while viewing evolution as a means of creation).
No doubt my urge to fart in public is also a possible sign of intelligent design.
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Quote:A theist such as myself,
Yep...nutty theists can always figure out a way to shoehorn their particular deity into anything.
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RE: What Use Is Half an Eye? Or no eye at all?
September 12, 2011 at 3:48 pm
(September 12, 2011 at 3:39 pm)Chuck Wrote: No doubt my urge to fart in public is also a possible sign of intelligent design.
You do have a hole in the back to let it out whenever you feel like it. The only problem is that it smells very bad sometimes. 
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