As I was walking into the kitchen this morning, it was dark and I didn't want to turn on the lights and wake anybody else up. As a result, I made my way by memory, some very small visual cues from outside lights, and touch. A thought occurred to me:
The Earth is dominated by 12 hours of daylight, a couple hours of twilight, and then 10 hours of mostly darkness. In the extreme northern and southern hemispheres it's even more hours of darkness (or lightness) for half the year. And while there are some stars at night, and there is the moon, often times the skies are cloudy or overcast, resulting in an inability to see clearly the ground. Anyone who's ever tried to hunt at night knows what I'm talking about.
If evolution were true, there would've been significant advantages to having infrared vision, since infrared is "always on," constantly emitting heat information about the temperature of objects. Even extremely mild cues in minor heat differences would've been of benefit - especially in searching for other warm blooded animals as hunters. We've seen nocturnal animals with huge pupils. The ability to see infrared would've significantly reduced that eyeball landscape requirement, and would've provided an advantage so substantial that all offspring would've had it in short order (small number of generations).
The fact that we don't have this, and no land animals have this (to my knowledge and I could be wrong, though I know some fish have this ability), suggests evolution did not happen, but rather by design we were created this way for the express purposes of God's will.
- Rick
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