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Author Topic:   Intelligent design??There may be proof....
mark24
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Message 2 of 17 (44284)
06-26-2003 5:42 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Number_ 19
06-26-2003 5:28 AM


19,
The theory of evolution relies completely on the fact that certain "things" were just laying around and then over a period of time formed togeather.
That's abiogenesis, not evolution. Evolution starts at the point of mutable heritability, ie after abiogenesis. In fact, the first organism could have been created & evolution still be true. Origins & evolution are separate.
But one thing evolution can't explain is the eye ball.There is no way that parts of the eye were seperated for a period of time and then just came togeather.This fact may hint at an intelligent designer.....What do you think?
It has already been explained. For an excellent account see Richard Dawkins "Climbing Mount Improbable", eye evolution, from a flat photosensitive sheet to lensed eye has also been simulated on computer.
Evolution: Library: Evolution of the Eye
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Here's how some scientists think some eyes may have evolved: The simple light-sensitive spot on the skin of some ancestral creature gave it some tiny survival advantage, perhaps allowing it to evade a predator. Random changes then created a depression in the light-sensitive patch, a deepening pit that made "vision" a little sharper. At the same time, the pit's opening gradually narrowed, so light entered through a small aperture, like a pinhole camera.
Every change had to confer a survival advantage, no matter how slight. Eventually, the light-sensitive spot evolved into a retina, the layer of cells and pigment at the back of the human eye. Over time a lens formed at the front of the eye. It could have arisen as a double-layered transparent tissue containing increasing amounts of liquid that gave it the convex curvature of the human eye.
In fact, eyes corresponding to every stage in this sequence have been found in existing living species. The existence of this range of less complex light-sensitive structures supports scientists' hypotheses about how complex eyes like ours could evolve. The first animals with anything resembling an eye lived about 550 million years ago. And, according to one scientist's calculations, only 364,000 years would have been needed for a camera-like eye to evolve from a light-sensitive patch.
Mark
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