RE: Who's the most prominent Christian on this forum?
August 30, 2012 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2012 at 4:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure, np. What are your criteria for "a stage apart"? What should be missing (or what should we be missing..our eyes may have gone downhill)? There's nothing irreducibly complex about an eye-spot either btw. "Every stage" of an eyes function does not function better than the last. Some eyes which would seem -to us- to be less complicated than our own are worlds better for the task at hand than ours would be.
(I ask so that you can't then turn around and ask for an intermediary between our eyes and the intemediary add infinitum -which is obviously where this is headed...since so many fucking examples were given in every link I just gave you.)
The concept itself is blisteringly simple. Any light sensitive apparatus immediately grants the bearer some "sense" of it's external surroundings. Even plants exhibit this peculiar trait, despite having no central nervous system to have "senses" at all. Any awareness (even if only mechanical) of external environment is likely to lead to increased survival rates which we would expect to see (and in fact do see) represented in both the fossil record and currently existing species. Taking this further, curvature of the surface around the photosensitive apparatus grants increased directional awareness. Notice the the apparatus itself need not change, merely the curvature of the "mount" if you will. Again, this is what we expect and what we see. I can continue with this if you like but I'm already feeling like I'm wasting my time...as all of this was already addressed in the links.
(I ask so that you can't then turn around and ask for an intermediary between our eyes and the intemediary add infinitum -which is obviously where this is headed...since so many fucking examples were given in every link I just gave you.)
The concept itself is blisteringly simple. Any light sensitive apparatus immediately grants the bearer some "sense" of it's external surroundings. Even plants exhibit this peculiar trait, despite having no central nervous system to have "senses" at all. Any awareness (even if only mechanical) of external environment is likely to lead to increased survival rates which we would expect to see (and in fact do see) represented in both the fossil record and currently existing species. Taking this further, curvature of the surface around the photosensitive apparatus grants increased directional awareness. Notice the the apparatus itself need not change, merely the curvature of the "mount" if you will. Again, this is what we expect and what we see. I can continue with this if you like but I'm already feeling like I'm wasting my time...as all of this was already addressed in the links.
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