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To: OldNavyVet

“Unfortunately for him, the song of the eye has many discordant notes. They show it to be not the work of some great composer, but of an insensible drudge: an instrument, like all others, buit by a tinkerer rather than a trained engineer.”

The last time I checked, the eyes of flies, dragonflies in particular, are a marvel for a trained engineer to behold.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/28/BAGLVIH3KP1.DTL

http://news.anu.edu.au/?p=644


66 posted on 10/21/2009 6:17:32 PM PDT by blackpacific
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To: blackpacific

All living things are marvels to behold, but insects don’t see like humans. As Jones writes: “Any insect would be astonished by our ability to see. Their eyes are built with not one, but hundreds of lenses, each of which concentrates light upon a sensor. That set of tiny and cheap cameras is a forceful statement of what evolution cannot do. Because of where they began, insect eyes are limited in what they see.” ... “Their worldview was described by the first scientist to take photographs through insect eyes as a ‘picture about as good as if executed in rather coarse wool-work and viewed at the distance of a foot.’”


67 posted on 10/21/2009 6:37:56 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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