[Junior]

Actually, the human eye is not nearly as unique as you think it is. All our spectral range is shared by other primates (apes and monkeys). We have at least one design flaw in that the optic nerve lies across the middle of our retina, leaving a dead spot (which the brain fills in). Many nectar-eating insects actually have a wider spectral range and can see colors invisible to us.

Now, Darwin, in a bit of a rhetorical flourish used the eye to illustrate a potential falsification of his theory. But then immediately went on to describe the literally hundreds of variations of the eye found in nature, from simple light-sensitive spots, to certain avian eyes that can spot a mouse-sized object from half a mile away. Of course, your average creationist site does not include these paragraphs, only the rhetorical flourish, so you may not have been aware of them.

[Seven_0]

We have at least one design flaw in that the optic nerve lies across the middle of our retina, leaving a dead spot (which the brain fills in).

Design flaw? If the eye came about by evolution, there is no design, if it was by design, shall we tell God about the flaw. You underestimate God.

The blind spot was put there on purpose, that is how God does things. Perhaps to illustrate that we need each other to see thing that we might miss. Sure, the brain fill in information, but it misses details and can be easily fooled. It is impossible to demonstrate the blind spot with both eyes opened. The testimony of two is true, thus two testaments.

[raynearhood]

Sorry it took so long to reply, this is the first time I've logged on in days.

Any hoo, I wasn't referring to the human eye as unique, just extremely complex. Any eye for that matter. The human eye was just an example used because it was used with me to try to prove evolution. As I was saying, the complexity of the eye is so great that the number of consecutive mutations that would be needed to evolve the eye from, say, the eye of the lungfish, would reach far beyond the scope of improbability straight into mathematical impossibility. No matter how many millenia is allowed for the change to occur.