Irreducible Complexity.

[lukec]

If number 1 is true, then the following possibilities might folllow:

1) God did not know how to design the eye better
2) God knew how to design the eye better, but had a reason for not doing so

Interesting point, and I'm not sure that it would even sit well with many theists; that could be implying that God was either not omnipotent or perhaps that God did not care to give us the most efficient eye possible. For the latter, I don't know what arguments could be made, but for the former I know it would be difficult for many theists to swallow that their God was not perfect.

As for the article on why the human eye is NOT bad design, the idea of protection from, for example, short wave light rays was brought up. This is one way of giving protection, but I cannot help but think that it would in fact be more efficient to simply have a thicker cornea or filter to stop these harmful rays. In squid, cuttlefish, and octopi the retina is of course "verted," which is interesting to me because although the these organisms live underwater, they are still subject to light damage- squid have disproportionally large eyes to catch more light since they are often very deep, but some live near the surface. Octopi, for example, living in clear tropical waters are in sunlight much of the time, and water would not offer much of a filter as one can still become sunburned even on the "tougher" skin, up to I believe 8 meters deep. Of course, this paragraph is full of ideas which I have not looked very much into, so if I'm wrong please correct me!

Note: I finished reading that article which finishes by talking about invertebrate eyes, and it brings up some interesting points. Good article, I thought.