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the schizochroal eye (of trilobites): evidence of design

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Coragyps
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02-17-2006 6:25 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by randman
02-17-2006 5:29 PM

perhaps even to the point of being the best optical system known in the biological world.
Suggesting that we mammals were given a suboptimal system by this Designer? Trilobites were The Chosen Ones, but now they've died out? Interesting....
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As I remember, the lenses of trilobite eyes were made of calcite crystals - same thing as limestone, but in a clear crystal form. Surely that means they were fixed-focus, no?
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Coragyps
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02-24-2006 7:28 PM 		Reply to: Message 9 by randman
02-17-2006 6:36 PM

Re: theology allowed here?
So you and crash basically have a theological objection to the idea, not a scientific one, right?
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Wrong. There is no theology absent a theos. I was pointing out one of the biggest pitfalls in "design" arguments, is all. And sorry for the delay - I lost this thread somehow.
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