Isn't the human eye an irreducibly complex structure that cannot be explained through natural selection?

Answer 1

Yes it can be explained through natural selection.

The beginning of the eye can be seen in some very primitive organisms as cells that react very subtly to light. Where there is light there is food.

Gradually, following up from the very primitive through to modern eyes we can see the evolutionary processes.

According to some scientific estimates it should only take about 365,000 years to evolve a camera-like eye. Eyes have been around for one heck of a long time.

Even plants have primitive eyes that allow them to follow our Sun (sunflowers) and other types of flowers to open in the sun and to close in the dark.

http://ebiomedia.com/gall/eyes/eye1.html

BC1980 -- yes, admittedly, there are not all the pieces of evolution. Science does not claim to know everything. However, we don't look at something, get confused and attribute it to God.

If scientists did that the world would still be flat and we'd be afraid of falling off the edge. We'd have no cures for many cancers, dentistry would still be oh-so-painful .........

Answer 2

Unfortunately, natural selection as a concept is not well understood by the general American population. The complexity of the eye can be readily explained by natural selection, but most people think natural selection is just simple probabilities. The good news is that Natural Selection could be understood by the general American population if the science education was better; after-all the majority of Europeans and Chinese have a good grasp of it. To the rest of the world, we look like a bunch of idiots because we keep debating whether intelligent design should be taught in schools instead of spending the time learning about science. And finally, if the eye was designed by a Creator, why is it upside down and backwards? No, it's best explained by natural selection.

Answer 3

Wow. Why do people think they can explain anything when they do not understand what they are talking about? 1. Eskimos do not need fur they have coats. So they do not die from the cold. DO YOU KNOW HOW NATURAL SELECTION WORKS? 2,3,4,5 Total fail. Black pigment protects black people by absorbing harmful radiation before it can damage the more vulnerable lower levels of skin. White people are white because in the northern climates we have less access to the sun and we need some for vitamin D production. Having black skin would be a disadvantage. 6. See above. BAM RIGHT IN THE KISSER!! Now how do I convince creationists of the foolishness of coming here and talking science without reading a ******* science book? Or at least wiki, so you can pretend that you know what you are talking about? OH BTW. Lets just say you were right for a second about the colors, That means god put all the different color people in exactly the wrong places. So you would have just proved god is a retard. Try thinking things through next time.

Answer 4

"if one assume intelligent design played any part in evolving the eye, one also has to assume that god has waaay too much time on his hands."

Or maybe time is not a limitation on a God. We can't prove how long it would take him to do anything (except for some biblical examples) at all, or even if it would be considered difficult enough to take longer to perform... To acknowledge that a deity exists, and to assign him the identity of the Christian deity who created the world in 6 days, is to also acknowledge that He is not bound by our human limitations. Any skepticism attributed to supposed abilities is based on an inability to recognize our limitations or at least a misunderstanding of the nature of omnipotence.
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"it's less complex than ordering coffee at starbuck's"

The irony of this statement... it's actually both true and false. It is about exactly as easy as ordering coffee at starbucks, you ask for it and then you get it, depending on "who" you are. But at the same time, you have to recognize that coffee is being created through intelligent manipulations of tools. The ingredients of your coffee do not come together by way of "infinite time plus chance". Might not have been exactly what you meant to say, but still correct!

More in line with the point you were trying to make, mankind's inventions are often simple. Difficulty is what is experienced when an intelligent being approaches the boundaries of it's limitation. Often inventions are difficult to figure out, but comparatively easy to put into practice. The bottom line? Intelligence and "invention" are tied hand in hand. You may continue to believe that certain types of sludge got mixed together at exactly the right time and place, or you can notice the immense amount of suspension of disbelief that evolution takes to digest. The same logic behind evolution is used in the "infinite monkey theorem", look that up some time to truly understand the leaps of pure faith that evolution begs. It's fairy tales for scientists.

Answer 5

Eyes have evolved about 40 different times. A squid's eye is structurally different and more efficient than a human eye. If you want to see a simple explanation of eye evolution read "Climbing Mt Improbable" by Richard Dawkins.

Answer 6

Yes, the eye is incredibly complex, and if it could be explained through natural selection or evolution, I'd like to see how this is done. There are so many holes in the theories of evolution. Several renowned scientist who try to prove evolution, try to explain gaps/missing links by supporting the theory of "punctuated equilibrium." This is basically a cop out. It's like saying that I can't explain exactly how it happened, so I'm just going to say it happened by chance, all of a sudden. The eye is a great example of how evolutionists can't explain how things actually gradually evolved over a period of time.

Answer 7

there are several different types of eye in the animal world - all with distinct functionality, all with different evolutionary histories.

if one assume intelligent design played any part in evolving the eye, one also has to assume that god has waaay too much time on his hands.

Answer 8

Sigh..... another Ted Haggard.

lol.sorry. Nothing amuses me more than the christians' "knowledge" of evolution

Answer 9

no. the structure of the eye is so simple, we have reproduced it thousands of times using such raw material as plastic or glass.

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this is the basic setup for a movie projector

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they are the same

it's less complex than ordering coffee at starbuck's

Answer 10

The eye has more humor than any other part of the body.

Kudos to anyone who caught that joke.