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Essay / Creation of the human eye - 1281
Some would have us believe that the human eye – in fact, every organ in our body – was born by chance; that somehow, thousands of accidents of nature aligned to create the well-ordered organism that humanity clearly is. But nowhere can we find more evidence of the creation of man by a benevolent God than in the human eye. The human eye is a marvel of biology, and its immense complexity, beauty, and perfection defy explanation, even by the most devoted proponents of evolutionary theory, who can leave us with nothing but the fact of existence and of God's insight: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; He created them male and female” (Genesis 1:27). The human eye is far more complex than one of humanity's most advanced creations, the computer chip. A single human eye has 130 million light-sensitive rods and cones that convert light into chemical pulses, and these signals then travel at a speed of about a billion per second to the brain. The sensitivity range of the eye, which provides humanity with excellent vision during bright, sunny days as well as dark, moonlit nights, far exceeds the visual capabilities of any film made by the man. Now consider that we have not just one eye, but two. This matching pair, coupled with an interpretation center in the brain, allows us to determine distances to the objects we see. Additionally, our eyes have the ability to automatically focus on objects near or far, by elongating or compressing. The eyes are also inserted under a hard, bony eyebrow which - in addition to the automatic shutters that we have, in the form of eyelids - provides shelter and security to these delicate...... middle of paper...... d 'superior intelligence. The human body and its individual components, quite frankly, are God's engineering masterpieces, for "I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14). Works Cited1. Darwin CR. 1859 The origin of species. Difficulties with the theory. Random House LLC.2. Miller SL and Urey HC. 1959 Synthesis of organic compounds on the early Earth. Science 130, 245-251.3. LiptonHS. 1980 A physicist looks at evolution. Bulletin of Physics 30, 1384. Dawkins CR. 1986 The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence for Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. Making tracks through animal space, pp. 77 – 110. Norton & Company, Inc.5. Franze K, Grosche J, Skatchkov SN, Schinkinger S, Foja C, Schild D, Uckermann O, Travis K, Reichenbach A and Guck J. 2007 Muller cells are living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina. P Natl Acad Sci USA 104, 8287-92.