How to Argue Against Evolution of Eyesight

What would you think of a person who saw a computer chip with millions of transistors that plugged into a socket on a computer and it all worked--who said, "You do know that a series of events in nature formed that computer chip? It is scientific fact that the chip had no designer or maker!"

You would think that person was not just confused. Yet, the evolutionist essentially says that's how the optic center in the brain came to exist, and that is a more complex processor than the most advanced computer chip ever made. So they say that the optic nerves, the eye and the retina all evolved by a series of natural events that we can call ad hoc--"formed for a particular case without consideration of wider application."

So then evolution is a process without any premeditated logic, design or maker! Evolutionists may even propose that it was not by random chaos. How was evolution not "random chaos?" That's a fair question to ask.

Evolutionists argue that mutated features which improve a creature’s chance for survival get passed on and multiplied in succeeding generations? What good would the various parts of an eye be separately toward survival of that life form by "failure" in the next generations? How can the intricacies of eyesight exist at all since eyesight requires many simultaneously existing "working" parts all by some highly successful accidents--called mutations. When the genetic system crashes (fails to work normally) then evolution improves in interdependency and intricacy!? Like downs syndrome--oh, but that is not helpful! Like Siamese twins--no!? Like idiot savants--not fully functional--well no... but there's more to consider like spina bifida--birth defect with an open spinal column or protruding nerve meninges.

[edit] Steps

  1. Point out that clearly evolution works by failure of previously successful systems in genetic accidents called mutations. The fact that the eye is highly intricate, with many interdependencies, requiring simultaneously successful systems makes evolution seem illogical and nonsensical. "Describe a strictly reactive system that is disintegrated and lacking intelligence that forms complex and successful systems inadvertently--call it evolution." Evolution does not work proactively, but by random chaos it was able in one dimension or another to avoid falling into total failure although life was blind, deaf, brainless and even totally senseless at some original form in the eons of time according to evolution...
  2. Examine a partly functional eye. The retinal nerves alone without the nerve connecting it to the brain, or the image processor in the brain without a useful retina would have no value, such useless structures would have not aided survival. Separately, such parts would not have any theoretical reason to exist (no benefit to survival)! So were they or were they not interdependent intricate codependent systems? So clearly they were passed on to the next generations without being successful, and so they could only improve by random chaos.
    • Consider the pupil of the eye and the retina that did not exist at exactly the same moment--would they ever "get together" since they would neither have any correlation to each other nor help survival separately?
    • If the focal distance and the correct shape of eye did not “come about” at the necessary distance from the photoreceptors in the retina, the eye nerves would neither have a reason to exist nor to even connect to the brain.
    • If the bag of fluid which forms the lens did not appear in the eye at the same time as photoreceptors regardless of the distance it would be useless to the individuals success.
    • If the retinal nerves network did not “exist” exactly at the same moment as the sclera (dense fibrous opaque white outer covering of the eyeball) and the part covered by the transparent cornea, iris and the pupil did, then the eye wouldn’t see. The uncovered retinal nerves would clearly either die from exposure or scar over and would have not value--as they are fragile.
    • An extremely large and intricate nerve bundle alone has no value. In fact if there were no successful eye, the optic nerve would not exist according to evolution.
    • If the optic nerve (which carries the nerve signals of light “images”' to the brain) were not “involved/engaged properly” at exactly the same moment as the retinal nerve network, the eye wouldn’t see.
    • If the sight center of the brain that “sees” did not “begin” to correctly process sight at exactly at the same moment as the optic nerve, then the nerve would have no reason to transmit or to be attached to the brain and the eye wouldn’t see.
  3. Observe needed simultaneous existence of the entire eye and all its functions plus the optic nerve from the eye to the brain and especially the sight center in the brain itself. All of the necessary advanced functions, and their interdependent relationships are all required to exist (at the exact same instant), or the eye would have no function or reason to exist. The parts would not work separately at the most rudimentary level (in some aquatic creature according to evolutionary theory) before it evolved into a mouse (shrew or what have you) and then to a monkey like creature, etc. according to a well known accident-and-systematic-failure-theory of origins ("evolutionary theory").
  4. See that the a non-functional part of an eye would not enhance survival and so the eye should not exist at all as it is not logical to evolve in unsuccessful pieces.


[edit] Tips

  • Try to imagine how the eye, hand, foot and hearing are all keenly coordinated in bits and pieces of fortuitous accidents. That alone is beyond reason...
  • A partly developed and "non-functioning" eye is no improvement whatsoever to the creature that possessed it. It would be worthless. Why would that exist then?
  • If worthless, there is no reason for a partly developed eye to get passed on in its "halfway" development while it awaits further mutation for improvements to allow actual sight which did not exist yet in any creature.
  • How would evolution retain the developing eyeball in its worthless socket as it would not be an improvement for its owner? Why would the sightless eye have muscles attached to it? They wouldn’t be helpful...
  • Pray to understand, to believe and then to accept that God created the universe and guided the existence of simultaneously required interdependent elements in any and all forms of life.
  • Avoid confusion about God or confusion caused by thinking that science is necessarily right about how this happened.
  • God always allows room for faith and gives faith as a gift to those that seek him. "Without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He rewards those who diligently seek him."(Hebrews 11:16)


[edit] Warnings

  • The eye cannot be a product of evolution by fits and starts (random chaos). Instead, it speaks clearly that there is the master design and great Designer, the ingenious Creator called the Great Physician. The eye testifies to the Glory of God by its intricate complexity.
  • From the top of your head to the bottom of your feet, all cells are supplied with life-giving oxygen that is delivered by the heart, lungs, and blood vessel system. That is, all cells except for the ones that comprise one particular tissue...: the cornea--the clear portion (in the area of the pupil) through which light passes in the front of the eye).Fearfully made a PDF by Dr. Jim Livengood, MD specialist in diseases of the eye
    • If there were blood vessels and blood cells racing through the corneal tissue, we would not be able to see because of the opaque nature of redblood. Compared to light wavelengths, the relatively giant red blood cells would interfere with the transmission of light to the retina in the back of the eye.
  • The cornea is the only tissue in the body that, due to its function, cannot have life-giving oxygen delivered to it by the bloodstream. It is amazing that the cornea is also the only tissue in the body that does not get its oxygen from the blood system--Coincidence? or was it an ingenious move that the Creator enabled the cornea to get its oxygen supply directly from the air. The cornea does have its own private breathing ability.
  • "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." (Psalm 139:14) The awesome and scarily precise nature of sight is just a single part of the whole person which is full of intricacies. Think about the many other similarly complex systems that are required to simultaneously support your life.


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