andrel wrote:
> On 20-4-2010 6:02, Darren New wrote:
>> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>>> Ahh, I did not understand that was the point you were making.  Of 
>>> course even so then there's still cephalopod eyes and such that would 
>>> need actual design.
>>
>> Nah. They're obviously inferior to the eyes God made in His own image. 
>> Otherwise, God's eyes wouldn't be the best, and God would thus be 
>> imperfect, right? Hence, they're merely God's eyes with imperfections 
>> added in. ;-)
> 
> You mean imperfections like letting the light pass through a layer of 
> vasculature and horizontal cells before reaching the photosensitive cells?

Yes, exactly.

> IIRC the octopus eye is much better designed than a human one 

... so to speak.

> and many a 
> vertebrate eye is more sensitive than ours but that is probably not the 
> point you are making.

Right.

Altho "Mr. Deity" had a funny line...

Skeptic: "If you're trying to use intelligent design to reveal yourself, why 
would you put a blind spot in the eye?"

Deity: "Where else would I put a blind spot?"

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