Human Vision Can Sense a Single Photon

Institute for Creation Research ^ | 8-8-16 | Brian Thomas

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Human Vision Can Sense a Single Photon

by Brian Thomas, M.S. *

How well designed is the human visual system? Biophysics researchers from the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Austria and Rockefeller University recently demonstrated that people can see just a single photon of light. This led them to ask how evolution could have crafted a visual system sophisticated enough to overcome the overwhelming problem of discerning single photons from the sea of electromagnetic, molecular, and electrochemical "noise" inside a human head.

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ICR article image.

[COBOL2Java]

Granted, these are pretty big...

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Geordi can see the energy buildup from the hull stresses on an enemy ship,

but Picard only fires back after their own shields get drained to 20%.

.....

[Sopater]

The photon and the human eye were created for just such a purpose.

[Boogieman]

[SandRat]

The beginning of shining a blinding light of creation on the evolutionists lies.

[wbarmy]

Wait a moment. Isn’t Kirk usually to busy being awesome to hear or make those kind of remarks?

[butlerweave]

I bet Obama can see his ears

[gattaca]

ping for later

[outofsalt]

Yes, and the reason your eyes get weaker with age is that is God’s way of keeping marriages strong.

[MeganC]

You would think that the problem with the shields going down would have been solved by the 24th century.

[bert]

It is actually logical conclusion that the brain can detect a single photon.

What it does is detect zillions of single photons and arrange them into a color discriminated visual pattern.

[P.O.E.]

They come from the nowhere and go to the no place.

[montag813]

All of our wealth and technology. All of our arrogance. And our best cameras cannot even approach what Nature’s God gifted us ages ago.

[CopperTop]

Thanks for saving me the trouble of diggin one of those images up. d;^)

[DUMBGRUNT]

God’s way of keeping marriages strong.

And at night all cats are grey.

Just ask that Franklin guy!

[NorthMountain]

All of our wealth and technology. All of our arrogance. And our best cameras cannot even approach what Nature’s God gifted us ages ago.

YEah! We're just soooo good at seeing outside of 400-900nm ...

[VanShuyten]

A single photon triggers a photo emulsion and also a CCD. Cascading biochemical reactions triggered by a single photon, electron, atom, or molecule are quite common in biological systems. I dare say life would be impossible without them.

[DannyTN]

Yeah, but still some women look drastically different depending on how the light hits them.

[sparklite2]

LOL
That would also explain the diminution
of the sense of smell.