The EYES have it!!

The playful twinkle in my husband’s eyes were the first thing I noticed about him when we met. It turned out that his eyes were a true reflection of his always laughing, fun loving and kind personality. And it sure didn’t hurt that they were green. I’ve always thought green eyes were rare and amazingly gorgeous.

Our first son has that twinkle too…but with a mischievous glint. I could tell moments after he was born when he picked up his head, looked around the room and gave me a “look out world!” stare. He has charged headlong into life since that day!

When I saw our second son’s eyes, I declared them to be …soulful. Deep in passion and thought. The eyes of the guitarist that strums around a campfire. Sure enough, this is my son who sends us all love notes, is always playing music and is an avid reader at age 5.

How does the eye do that, I wonder? How does it project to the world your intentions and dreams in a single glance? How does it bark orders, say sorry or invite you along for an adventure? And as amazing as just looking at the eye is, it is just the cover page of a much more sophisticated and intricate organ inside.

Evolutionists say that the simple light sensitive spot that allows single celled organisms to detect and move away from light, somehow developed through random DNA mutations into this magnificent organ called the eye. I say:  The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both” (Proverbs 20:12

Charles Darwin, the father of evolution was himself skeptical of the eye having evolved, and this was before many of the intricacies of the eye were even discovered.  He said:

 “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 been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.”

You said it, Charlie – absurd. Took the words right out of my mouth.

Let’s take a quick look at the eye. Remember this overview barely skims the surface of its abilities.

First let’s remember that the eye only functions when all its parts are working, and not till then.

An eye without a lens will not work. An eye without an optic nerve connecting it to the brain will not work. An eye without a cornea will not work. And so on and so forth. Until all the parts of the eye are present and functioning – it will NOT work! 

So why would a one celled organism with a light detection spot continue through completely random mutations, to build an increasingly complex organ, over time, that DOES NOT WORK?!! Evolution cannot plan. It cannot anticipate. It cannot hope. (Oh please, please let this mutation produce vitreous humor to fill the eye, and a cornea to start focusing the light, c’mon DNA lemme see what you got!). Yeah…say it again, Charlie –“absurd”

Scientists call this irreducible complexity. Basically saying, if it were any less complex or unfinished, (say it with me). IT WILL NOT WORK!

Let’s focus instead on a few parts of this amazing finished product: the two globes that act as a video camera always adjusting and focusing so we can see crisply and accurately.

 It has a seamless integration with our brain to allow images to be translated into information we can understand. This requires a complicated system of photo-chemical receptors, electrical signals, specialized cells and more all working harmoniously.

The six muscles attached to the eyes allow for large movements of the eye but also for small imperceptible tremors that shift your eyeball ever so slightly in a fraction of a second, without any effort on your part to allow for accurate focus.

The lens of the eye focus the image on the retina which lines the back of the eye. Special muscles make the lens thicker or thinner to focus an image. Specialized cells in the retina (rods and cones) allow us to see the image in various light levels, and in color.

The eyes have its own windshield wipers (the eyelids) and wiper fluid(tears) which keep the eyes free of debris and clean. The eyelashes (which are not just for batting at someone to flirt), help keep that dust and debris from landing in the eye.

Sounds like someone thought of everything doesn’t it? Sounds like Someone wanted to make us perfectly and wonderfully. Sounds like Someone really cares about us.

I would be remiss if I didn’t add to that …Someone cared about us so much He sent His only begotten Son in the world to die for our sins (John 3:16) and make us blameless before God when we accept that Salvation. Sounds like our amazing God!

If you would like more detailed information on the eye, please visit these websites:

http://www.detectingdesign.com/humaneye.html  (This is a scholarly article detailing and rebutting in a respectful, scientific  manner the argument for the evolution of the eye)

http://www.creationmoments.com/content/micro-marvels-human-eye-0  A short simple look at some highlights of the eye, especially the complex retina

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n3/seeing-eye  A short, interesting overview of the eye from a creation perspective.

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