the human Eye

  • No camera lens has ever been developed that can compare with the inconceivable intricacy of the human eye.
  • The human eye is an amazing interrelated system of about forty individual subsystems, including the retina, pupil, iris, cornea, lens and optic nerve. It has 137 million light-sensitive special cells. 130 million handle black and white vision and seven million cone shaped cells allow us to see color.
  • Retina cells receive light impressions which are translated into electrical impulses that are sent to the brain through the optic nerve. The visual cortex of the brain, along with the optic nerve capture, deliver and interpret 1.5 million pulse messages per millisecond. It would take dozens of computers, programmed perfectly and operating together to accomplish this task.
  • How could the lens, retina, optic nerve, all operate seamlessly together in perfect harmony and come together from nothing through random chance? Talk about impossible!
  • Evolutionist Robert Jastrow said: “The eye appears to have been designed; no designer of telescopes could have done better. How could this marvelous instrument have evolved by chance, through a succession of random events?” As theologian William Pauley said: “There cannot be a design without a designer.” (Robert Jastrow, “Evolution: Selection for perfection.” Science Digest, 12/81: p. 86).
  • Even Darwin acknowledged the incredible complexity of the eye:
    “To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light…could have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. (Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 167).

*[From Ray Comfort’s How to Know God Exist, p. 20-22].