Incredibly, the eye, optic nerve and visual cortex are totally separate and distinct subsystems. Yet, together, they capture, deliver and interpret up to 1.5 million pulse messages a milli-second! It would take dozens of Cray SUPERCOMPUTERS programmed perfectly and operating together flawlessly to even get close to performing this task!!
Is it rational to believe that the eye (life) is the result of nature's trial and error or the design of an intelligent creator??
2006-11-04 15:05:33 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Twenty years ago, the analogy was "a computer the size of the empire state building". Now the analogy is a dozen computers. In a decade, it will be one Nintendo 3000. By the way, it is not true that the eye is responsible for that rate of processing. Thats an urban legend. That is the number of optical nerve fibers in the eye, and they do not all process at any given time, and definitely not at that speed.
But the eye and optic nerve and visual cortex have already been duplicated by humans without all those computers. It's called a digital camera, which has millions more receptors than the eyeball, works at equivalent (or higher ) speeds, and is more durable. And the digital camera is a product of trial and error (aka evolution).
And yes, it is rational to beleive that the eye is a result of trial and error. We have a perfect model of that right in our own generation. The computer you're typing on, which wasn't even dreamed of when the first computers appeared 60 years ago, is a direct result of trial and error. Memory storage, LCD screens, Softwares, and IPOD music capabilities were not even a concept to early computer manufacturers, yet look what's evolved. These were not (could not have been) designed 60 years ago, they evolved from hundreds of models that succeeded or failed in either function or timing. In the same manner that the eye evolved from a heat sensor into a light sensor then into an image reader, so did the computer evolve from a cumbersome calculator into an unprecadented tool for graphics, communication, and weather modelling. Just like biological evolution.
2006-11-04 15:28:50 · answer #1 · answered by freebird 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most believers see the complexity of life as "evidence" of a designer. The human eye, which is not as a good in vision as, say, an eagle's eye. Has evolved in slow stages from the 100's of millions of years that life has evoled. Through the 5 million years of human evolution to today. The eye, (along with everything else) is always evolving. We will not be the same species in a million years, if we make it that long.
When something is complex to the observer, a conclusion is always drawn to a designer. For some reason, if we can't understand how something was made. We draw the conclusion that "It must be the work of God" It is the easy way out. It's very similar in saying when someone is evil and going "The devil made him do it". Again, the easy way out.
2006-11-04 15:48:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
technically, us humans have the tendency to believe in a divine or supernatural being when rationalism fails to explain things.
nonetheless, the existence of God is not characterized by the lack of a rational explanation but rather by a complexity and abstrusity of infinte explanations. ironic but true.
and I believe life is just one of those abstruse and complex means of explaining God's existence...so yes life can prove God's existence.... do you need the proof?? your question requires only a "yes" or "no" answer.
2006-11-05 23:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by karl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's certainly not proof of either. We're going to need more information before we can all finally come to a PROVEN conclusion. In the meantime, we can keep arguing back and forth until we go blue in the face. :)
2006-11-04 15:15:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Except that there are living creatures with rudimentry eyes in every stage of development from simple light-detecting spots on up.
2006-11-04 15:42:54 · answer #5 · answered by February Rain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely "the design of an intelligent creator" as you've so eloquently phrased it. This universe is too much of a phenomenal to be a mistake!
GOD EXISTS! that's all I can say.
2006-11-04 15:10:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're right. The complexity of the human eye clearly proves the existence of Zeus.
2006-11-04 15:07:13 · answer #7 · answered by . 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Atheists bane...they must prove nothingness logically.
For God is the First Action, First Cause of the Universe.
Life proves God. Our presence or being proves God.
2006-11-04 15:17:04 · answer #8 · answered by Lives7 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it certainly is damnable proof.
their is only one problem with the G-d of the gaps theory
what happens if science dose figure out how the eye developed?
then what?
2006-11-04 15:15:04 · answer #9 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God existed before life.
He was never born, nor does He age.
He is in all things, and all things abide in Him.
From Him all good things come.
His mercy is an endless fountain
2006-11-04 15:11:58 · answer #10 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋