The fish darwin symbol... N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV 861

I've thought it through and studied in considerabel detail. I studied both Biology and Geology as part of my degree, so I'm familiar with much of the fossil record as well as the biology of the current fauna. What is apparent is that you don't give your own comment much or indeed any thought.

There is no reason at all why a creature should develop a single eye. Indeed there's no record anywhere of a single eyed creature that I can think of. Can you? Neither does the existence of creatures with multiple eyes point to design.

YOu made the foolish buttumption that animals all have two eye. This is false and there are various arrangements including three eyed reptiles (Tuatara), and on to arthropods with multiple eyes. There are even some arthropods with buttymetric eyes - some shrimps for example have eyes which only work in one axis and that act as spectrum analysers rather than cameras. There is a huge diversity in the nature and arrangement of eyes. So two is nothing special.

Now, if you car to engage your brain, you may realise that the entire surface of your body is in fact a primitive eye. On a sunny day, take your clothes off and go outside. Close your eyes, or preferably have them bandaged to exclude all light, spin around a few times then try to face towards the sun.

Easy isn't it? Your entire body is sensitive to infra-red radiation, which is a form of light just below the range that you can "see" with your eye.

You don't just have two of these sensors, you have thousands of them, embedded in your skin.

Now to udnerstand how an eye may have formed, imagine these sensors gradually improving in sensitivity. Obviously there's no need for them all over the body and developing high efficiency sensors all over the body could well turn out to be a handicap, so the animals that will survive wil be the ones with just localised patches of sensors. And because the information that is beign conveyed is what we call High bandwidth, it makes sense to locate thos esensors close to the brain.

Yippe we're on our way.

Sensor patches develop protective skin over them, the skin needs to be transparent for efficiency so selection favours an improved "window". Animals developing in the sea don't need eyelids and so they don't develop those at first and we're now on our way to eyes. The ability to sense things on both sides of the body makes some sort of sense and again selection pressure would tend to favour those animals that had a symmetrical arrangement of eyes so they could look both sides, forward and behind. You will find if you bother to look that creatures with primitive eyes tend to have them located on the side of the body-face rather than staring straight ahead.

Now do you get it?

Somehow I doubt it.

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