Some parts are good. Much is posturing.
Squid are awfully colorful for a colorblind animal. They even change colors to match their background. An error this obvious is not a good sign.
They have the done the usual snow job. Its not a neccessity. It serves us well because it has been refined by 200 million or more years of evolution. That can make up for a bad start.
Of course. And it does so. Thats why we get cataracts. The UV light is absorbered in the cornea and lens.
Yes it clearly did evolve that way except for the many defects that happen anyway. Like cataracts, myopia, retinitis pigmentosa, and good ole macular degeneration. Very well done Jehova. Sure you wouldn't rather the Bible admited to evolution?
Didn't he just say the cornea and lens did the job. The rest is uneeded then. Indeed it is counter productive. Our eyes work well most of the time. A different layout would be better and all this obfuscation won't change that.
Utterly fraudulent claim. They would never have evolved that way. The octupus don't have this alleged problem. Neither would we.
I suggest that its because it started that way with creatures that didn't need excellent vision. Since that bad start evolution has done a decent job of working around that bad start.
He suggests all that because he feels the need to invent something to cover up reality.
He did go to a lot of work though. To bad it was just to obfuscate.
Also, they have never shown that cephalopods actually see better. On the contrary, their eyes merely ‘approach some of the lower vertebrate eyes in efficiency’[47] and they are probably colour blind.[48]
Even evolutionists concede that the inverted retina serves those creatures that possess it, very well;41 it affords them superb visual acuity. We have reviewed the necessity for this arrangement which turns on the nature of the photoreceptors.
Light at various wavelengths is capable of very damaging effects on biological machinery
The retina, besides being an extremely sophisticated transducer and image processor, is clearly designed to withstand the toxic and heating effects of light.
Besides the almost complete exclusion of ultraviolet radiation by the cornea and the lens together, the retina itself is endowed with a number of additional mechanisms to protect against such damage:
If the human retina were ‘wired’ the other way around (the verted configuration), as evolutionists such as Dawkins propose,2 these two opaque layers would have to be interposed in the path of light to the photoreceptors which would leave them in darkness!
Thus I suggest that the need for protection against light-induced damage, which a verted retina in our natural environment could not provide to the same degree, is a major, if not the major reason for the existence of the inverted configuration of the retina.
He suggests all that because he feels the need to invent something to cover up reality.
He did go to a lot of work though. To bad it was just to obfuscate.
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