Complex Eyes of ‘Simple’ Clams Confound Darwin

Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | 5-13-2019 | Jerry Bergman, PhD

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Complex Eyes of ‘Simple’ Clams Confound Darwin

May 13, 2019 | Jerry Bergman

by Jerry Bergman, PhD

Darwin is famous for admitting that the origin of complex structures made him sick: In The Origin of Species, we read:

“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”[1]

[null and void]

why do we have only two eyes, two arms and two legs?

Because we aren't smart enough to handle more.

[null and void]

Eyes as a light sensing organ arise quickly (maybe tens of thousands of generations) with even small amounts of selection for light sensitivity.

Pit vipers are on the path to having infrared eyes. The have heat sensors cells, they have them in a cup that shades them from off-axis IR. In the future, if it is adaptive, that pit will turn into something closer to a pinhole camera, then, if it is adaptive, a thin transparent membrane will grow over that pinhole to prevent crud from getting into the eye, if it is adaptive, serpents with membranes thicker in the middle will have better hunting success with even that crude lens. Oh wait, a lens, a cavity, a light sensitive membrane. That's an eye.

[Bob434]

[[why do we have only two eyes, two arms and two legs?]]

Because 3’s a crowd

[Bob434]

[[Why do scallops have better eyes than humans?]]

Because Scallops have better optometrists

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Come, come now. This all happened over millions, billions, or trillions of years, so that makes it all possible. Why just yesterday on FR, I read about a flightless bird becoming extinct and then miraculously (through evolution) recreating itself!

Imagine! The miracles of science.,

[AndyJackson]

What a fabulous site. As a scientist I am so persuaded by ridicule. It is really convincing - just clinches the argument.

Do all you idiots fall for this junk? And no, I don't care waht you think about the theory of evolution. Believe it or don't believe it for all I care, but don't call yourselves conservative if you think this mode of argumentation is valid.

[sparklite2]

[sparklite2]

My dog makes his own Vitamin C, but I can’t.
The creator was an underachiever.

[sparklite2]

“Miracle” is code for “the dog ate my homework.”

[PeterPrinciple]

Nobody had to design it. It naturally arises in the conditions in which life existed/exists.

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so, spontaneous generation then...………………….

[Calvin Locke]

Ivar's Chariots of Clams (Old local commercial)

[grey_whiskers]

Quite readily replicated in generative network simulations.

*snicker*

In vivo != in vitro != ‘in silico’

[grey_whiskers]

Mutatis mutandis.
Like countervailing selection pressures, or poorly timed predation.

[IrishBrigade]

‘They long ago decided to reject any notion of a Supreme Being because to accept such would demand they submit themselves to a Power higher than themselves.’

nonsense; maybe, just maybe, they find the concept of an uncaused, non temporal, and non spatial entity spinning multiverses and fretting about everyone’s personal issues a bit much to accept...?

[NewJerseyJoe]

P4L

[alexander_busek]

They long ago decided to reject any notion of a Supreme Being because to accept such would demand they submit themselves to a Power higher than themselves form an opinion despite there being insufficient evidence.

And no, I don't have to propose an alternative explanation; a mere "I don't know / I have yet to be presented with sufficiently convincing evidence" is an entirely appropriate response.

Regards,

[Jeff Chandler]

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Miracle” is code for “the dog ate my homework.”

😂