Evolution of the eye

This video response is to combat the creationist point of view that intelligent design created life! If evolution can create the eye then anything is possible!

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Science & Technology

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• eye

[technicallyabsurd]

Hey look at this, a video on evolution, ratings not disabled, comments not disabled.

Just like all of them are. Can't say the same for creationist vids...

[blackadderthe4]

@technicallyabsurd

'ratings not disabled, comments not disabled' way to go!

[stevew1904]

A response follows in 5 parts. I used to believe this argument and others like it that support Evolution. But then I decided to study the arguments in closer detail. What I found was that there are gaping holes which are just glossed over by those proposing the arguments. People who really want to believe Evolution are happy to accept these arguments as being “scientific and therefore valid”. The fact that there are animals today with eyes varying from simple to highly complex, does not prove

[blackadderthe4]

@stevew1904

'I decided to study the arguments in closer detail' buit are qualified? If so what makes you so?

[hampoofegg]

@stevew1904

You are asking really simple questions that will take many different explanations. You can ask all day and say that you looked into all the facts and researched this, but your argument is honestly very naive and doesn't really give some kind of antithesis. All that you are doing is saying that you looked up the facts, but never stated any.

[hampoofegg]

@stevew1904

You seem to not understand that this does take generations. The video isn't saying "hey, this eye was made in two weeks." It's more of a general overview of how an eye develops through evolution. This happened of millions and millions of years, so it's not even happening in a short span of time as you are implying.

[Alphacaliber]

@stevew1904 You may well be right, the changes involved are huge. You seem to forget that life has been around for quite sometime.

[stevew1904]

Part 2 that one has, or even could, evolve from the other.

Let me ask you a question: How does the change from a fixed eye, consisting of a spherical indentation lined with light sensitive cells, into a swivelling eye consisting of a ball in a socket, take place by natural selection? The changes involved are huge. This alone would take countless generations and each minute development would be meaningless to the animal concerned. Consider what is necessary.

[stevew1904]

Part 3.Muscles need to develop within the eyeball to control the lens; an iris needs to evolve to control light levels; muscles must develop outside of the eyeball, to make it swivel; a bone structure needs to develop to which these muscles can attach; tear glands are needed to lubricate the eyeball; tear ducts are needed to drain the eye; eyelids are needed to keep it clean. And all of these need to be connected via nerves to the brain, which must be capable of involuntary actions such as