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To: Soliton

“There are many examples of intermediate stages in eye development in nature from light sensitive “eye spots” to the most complex eyes. Study. Learn.”

The problem is I do have knowledge ... .

Odd how no one can tell me how the eye “evolved”.

Or how the heart “evolved”.

Yet you expect me to take junk science seriously.


80 posted on 05/28/2008 2:59:26 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

Here’s how some scientists think some eyes may have evolved: The simple light-sensitive spot on the skin of some ancestral creature gave it some tiny survival advantage, perhaps allowing it to evade a predator. Random changes then created a depression in the light-sensitive patch, a deepening pit that made “vision” a little sharper. At the same time, the pit’s opening gradually narrowed, so light entered through a small aperture, like a pinhole camera.

Every change had to confer a survival advantage, no matter how slight. Eventually, the light-sensitive spot evolved into a retina, the layer of cells and pigment at the back of the human eye. Over time a lens formed at the front of the eye. It could have arisen as a double-layered transparent tissue containing increasing amounts of liquid that gave it the convex curvature of the human eye.

In fact, eyes corresponding to every stage in this sequence have been found in existing living species. The existence of this range of less complex light-sensitive structures supports scientists’ hypotheses about how complex eyes like ours could evolve. The first animals with anything resembling an eye lived about 550 million years ago. And, according to one scientist’s calculations, only 364,000 years would have been needed for a camera-like eye to evolve from a light-sensitive patch.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/1/l_011_01.html


87 posted on 05/28/2008 4:36:30 PM PDT by Soliton
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