how could anyone in his right mind think that eyes formed by mere chance?

Question

Did you know that the eye has 40,000,000 nerve endings, the focusing muscles move an estimated 100,000 times a day, and the retina contains 137,000,000 light sensitive cells?

Charles Darwin said,

"To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."

If man cannot begin to make a human eye, how could anyone in his right mind think that eyes formed by mere chance? In fact, man cannot make anything from nothing. We don't know how to do it. We can re-create, reform, develop . . . but we cannot create even one grain of sand from nothing. Yet, the eye is only a small part of the most sophisticated part of creation-the human body.

George Gallup, the famous statistician, said,

"I could prove God statistically; take the human body alone; the chance that all the functions of the individual would just happen, is a statistical monstrosity."




Albert Einstein said,

"Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe—a spirit vastly superior to man, and one in the face of which our modest powers must feel humble."

Answer 1

Einstein uses the word spirit.

Do not confuse god with spirit.

Back to the age old question, if god created us who created god.

Answer 2

You're kind of all over the place on this one. Evolution doesn't have anything to say about the formation of the planets, and their satellites, or stars...that's cosmology and astronomy. Given that it happened, the chance is 100%. Rainbows are the effect of white light seperating in moisture droplets (solved that mystery for ya). Fruits and vegetables, as well as our ability to eat them, are the product of evolution. Generally speaking, the part of the fruit and vegetable that we eat is the seed, or seed pod, of the plant...the reproductive portion, so to speak. Humans, being omniverous, evolved the ability to eat and digest these things. It's a symbiotic relationship. Remember that not all plants are edible (or beneficial). Some have evolved defense mechanisms (such as poison ivy and oak). For every one that can be of use to the human body, there's another that can kill it. "an awareness of our own existance, our mind, babies made in their mothers womb every minute...emotions, legs, eyes,..." All evolutionary traits. "How much time would it take for a dinosaur (fixed that for ya) to evolve with all of these things in place..." Archeology and natural history shows us that it took millions of years. "what are the chances that everything formed with out a plan and no one to constuct this reality of everything." Again, given that it happened, the chances are 100% "Life is many on earth yet zero everywhere else." Fossilized bacteria has been found on Mars...that indicates life elsewhere.

Answer 3

Here's the rest of Darwin's quote:

Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound.

Answer 4

I respect the opinions of the people you cite, nevertheless, the argument still goes back to the intricacy and complicated aspects of the entire universe. If you have a hard time explaining the existence of eyes without a creator, now, imagine how intricate and complicated this creator must be, and tell me how you can explain this creator's existence.

Answer 5

Why does everybody have to argue about evolution? For crying out loud, if you believe it then thats fine for you, and the same can be said if you don't believe it! Why must both sides of this issue think that they need to force what THEY believe down everybody else throats?
You believe what you want and everybody else can do the same and we can all get on to other things!

Answer 6

And yet they won't believe....Jesus was frustrated by the same thing. They saw miracles and people being raised from the dead and still they would not believe. And some of those who believe there is a God, cannot accept Jesus as their Savior..a haughty spirit..".I don't need a Savior".
All we can do is tell them..we can't save them..

Answer 7

You are the king of the Cut n Paste aren't ya?

Eyes didn't form by chance and evolution doesn't claim they did. At least understand it before you try to tear it down.

Beings with a patch of light sensitive cells survived at higher rates. Then came a recessed patch of light sensitive cells. Then a simple eye. Then a compound eye. Success building on success over millions of years.

The opposite of "chance". I also bothered to type this out to you instead of just paste.

And to you and the guy below - bother to READ Darwin. You're just taking some quotes out of context. I know those quotes and Darwin goes on, at great length, after those quotes. I'm sure you're a great source of comfort to one another, however.

Answer 8

I agree that the universe has an intelligent design. I happen to believe that this design is observable through science and that one of the processes involved with it is evolution. God works through the phenomenae which is observable by science.
People who throw out science because they think that a belief in God precludes it do a diservice to both God and Science.

Answer 9

Have you ever thought that God created the world through evolution? That's what I believe.

Answer 10

well, exactly. the eye formed by natural selection, not chance. i do believe you left out the part where darwin explains (in the very next sentence if i remember correctly) how it's actually plausible. find it yourself if you can be bothered.