...and wonderfully made... Psalm 139:14
"Let us take the eye.
There are several distinct types of eyes, each type being quite efficient as organs of seeing.
But if we take the eye of the higher animals, we become amazed to find an almost identical structure in the cuttlefish or devilfish, which is really a mollusk.
Its eye has all the parts found in the human eye,
a retina,
a sclerotic,
a choroid,
a vitreous humor,
an aqueous humor,
and an adjustable lens,
just as in the eye of one of the higher vertebrates.
Now I can believe that these similar organs could have been created independently for these very distinct classes of animals.
But I cannot believe that this marvelous organ was evolved independently in these two instances by any process of natural development or evolution.
If Darwin used to say that the origin of the eye always gave him a cold shiver, whenever he thought of explaining it by evolution, I do not think that his mental equilibrium would have been restored if he had considered that this organ must have been evolved quite
separately in at least these two instances.
Indeed, this process must have been repeated also once more; for the pecten, another kind of shellfish wholly different from the cuttlefish, has two rows of almost equally perfect eyes around the edge of its body. I cannot force myself to believe that these complete organs of sight were separately and independently evolved by any natural development in these three instances."
GeorgeMcReady
"Let us take the eye.
There are several distinct types of eyes, each type being quite efficient as organs of seeing.
But if we take the eye of the higher animals, we become amazed to find an almost identical structure in the cuttlefish or devilfish, which is really a mollusk.
Its eye has all the parts found in the human eye,
a retina,
a sclerotic,
a choroid,
a vitreous humor,
an aqueous humor,
and an adjustable lens,
just as in the eye of one of the higher vertebrates.
Now I can believe that these similar organs could have been created independently for these very distinct classes of animals.
But I cannot believe that this marvelous organ was evolved independently in these two instances by any process of natural development or evolution.
If Darwin used to say that the origin of the eye always gave him a cold shiver, whenever he thought of explaining it by evolution, I do not think that his mental equilibrium would have been restored if he had considered that this organ must have been evolved quite
Indeed, this process must have been repeated also once more; for the pecten, another kind of shellfish wholly different from the cuttlefish, has two rows of almost equally perfect eyes around the edge of its body. I cannot force myself to believe that these complete organs of sight were separately and independently evolved by any natural development in these three instances."
GeorgeMcReady
