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11/25/04
New Theories on the Origin of the Eye
Steve Jones writes a byline about the mounting evidence for the evolution of the eye. The human eye, which gave Darwin himself a "shudder" (because of it's perfection in design), is nowadays thought to be easily explained by tiny incremental changes over eons of time and "convergent" evolution.
A letter to the editor of the London Daily Telegraph by David Tyler says that "Steve Jones uses his column to accuse "believers" of arrogance. 'When the facts don't fit, tell lies' is the caricature he uses. Whatever the issues are, they are not to do with lying about facts. They are about interpretations. Jones describes the evolutionary ancestor as a 'complex creature', even though it lived in the Precambrian. The new research pushes back the origin of eye complexity to a time where Darwinists think that there were no predators and no land life-forms and where there are no convincing drivers for natural selection to act on natural variations. This new research makes Richard Dawkins' assertion (that the eye has evolved over 40 times independently) to look a bit thin. More importantly, since there are so many design features relating to eyes, it is not unreasonable to consider the possibility that similar architectures are related to design rather than evolution. Indeed, one might deem it arrogant to suggest that all talk of design belongs to the 'anti-science brigade'."
Random mutations are all the Darwinists have, so teleologic arguments get them nowhere. Supposed convergent evolution, in any form, strongly argues
against random mutations and for something else. Perhaps similar eyes point to a common designer with general templates for the eye?
For the full article (you must register and search for Steve Jones) in the London Daily Telegraph, click HERE.
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