THE HUMAN EYE:
AN UNANSWERABLE TESTIMONY FOR CREATION AND AGAINST EVOLUTION:
The human eye is an awesome piece of machinery. It is more wonderful
than the most intricate man made device. Although the human eyeball
measures only about 1" (25 mm) in diameter, yet it can see objects as
far away as a star and as small as a grain of sand. It can quickly
adjust its focus between a distant point and a near one and can be
accurately directed toward an object even while the head is moving.
The eye is made up of a number of different parts, each in turn causing
us to wonder. The eyelid serves to protect the eye, often by reflex
action when danger is sensed. The eyelash on the lid screens out some
of the dust and other particles which could enter and damage the eye.
The conjunctiva is the membrane which lines the inside of the eyelid
and extends over the white part of the eye. Part of its job is to keep
the keep the eyeball lubricated (think of the number of times you blink
each day) and also produces some tears which help keep the eye clean.
The retina makes up the innermost layer of the wall of the eyeball.
Although as fragile as a piece of wet tissue paper, it has light
sensitive cells which absorb light rays and changes them into
electrical signals. There are 2 types of these light sensitive cells -
rods and cones, so named after their shapes. The eye has about 120
million rods and around 6 million cones. These enable us to see shades
of grey and in dim light and also to distinguish more than 200 colours.
Nerve fibres attached to the rods and cones join at the centre of the
retina and form the optic nerve. This nerve has around 1 million fibres
and it serves as a flexible cable that connects the eyeball to the
brain. In fact the optic nerve and the retina are actually extensions
of the brain. The optic nerve carries the electrical signals produced
in the retina to the brain, which interprets them as visual images.
Every second, one billion electrical impulses are thus transmitted to
the brain.
Although the above details are only really a fraction of what could be
said about the human eye, it must be admitted that it is a truly
wonderful contraption indeed! For the purposes of this article, it will
do two things:
1) IT SHOWS THE SHAM OF EVOLUTION WHICH TEACHES US
THAT THE EYE EVOLVED FROM A VERY SIMPLE BASIS TO WHAT IT IS TODAY:
Some who hold to evolutionist faith
tell us that the whole human body evolved through what they call
mutations i.e. slight changes from one generation to another. Here they
have two main problems because first of all, the vast majority of
mutations are either lethal, harmful or just plain useless. But some
evolutionists claim that every so often (once in a million years! Has
been suggested) there is a positive mutation (i.e. is beneficial) and
this increases the generally usefulness of the organism. We might ask,
what about the other mutations which are either lethal or harmful? What
about the net result? A football team which manages to score a goal now
and again but concedes goals by the dozen every game will hardly
succeed. This is evidently a non starter. Secondly, with all the
details listed above, even if we were to forget about the bad mutations
(which could well undo any previous advances), how long do we need to
produce all those rods and cones and nerve fibres? These evolutionist
tells us that all this took place over billions of years, but even with
all this vast expanse, he simply runs out of time. Not only must these
mutations actually take place, but to be of any use they must
co-ordinate together. To go back to our football illustration again,
what is the use having a brilliant winger who can pass brilliant balls
into the opponent’s penalty box, if there is no one there to
convert them into goals? One failure will effectively destroy the
whole. An animal with half developed eyesight is effectively blind and
therefore unlikely to survive in the evolutionists survival of the
fittest scenario.
DARWIN’S STARTLING CONFESSION
Is it any wonder that Darwin, the apostle of evolutionary thinking, in his book Origin of the Species wrote the following: "To
suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting
the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of
light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration,
could have formed by natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd
in the highest degree." In a letter in February 1860 to his evolutionary friend, Asa Gray, Darwin lamented: "To this day the eye makes me shudder."
This is because it completely smashes his notion to smithereens.
However, Darwin foolishly pushed on with his doctrine of evolution.
2) IT SHOWS THE WONDERFUL POWER OF OUR CREATOR GOD:
In Proverbs 20:12, we read: "The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the
Lord has made even both of them." It is more rational to believe that a
Designer designed the eye than to believe that it came about by blind
random chance. Truly, each of us can say, like David: "I am fearfully
and wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works: and that my soul
knoweth right well." (Psalm 139:14) We cannot run away from the thought
of a Creator God. Our own bodies bare testimony to His existence and
power. One day we must meet Him. His is the hand that graciously feeds
us. "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye
shall he not see?"(Psalm 94:9)
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST:
Best of all this great Creator God has
provided for us a wonderful and eternal salvation from sin. God loves
His creation (John 3:16) He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked
(Ezekiel 33:11) He would have all men be saved and come to a knowledge
of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4) He has made salvation to be a free gift
(Romans 6:23) - without money and without price (Isaiah 55:1) - and
also without works of any kind (Ephesians 2:8-9) Evolution can offer
nothing like this! It's message panders to man's lowest instincts -
encouraging men to pursue sin - but God says: "Thou shalt call his name
Jesus…for He shall save from their sins" (Matthew 1:21)
THE END
SEE ALSO:
* Darwin's startling confession about the Origin of the Species
* Is Evolution a Religion?
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