Natures wonders: squid eye lens focuses exactly (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, August 13, 2017, 11:08 (2446 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID’s comment: The eyes have to work correctly from the beginning, meaning the proper proteins to form the lens, the exact depth of the eye and the retina were formed at once. Obvious design at play. Cell community intelligence cannot do this.

dhw: How do you know that cell community intelligence can’t do it? What is your theory? That 3.8 billion years ago God specially instructed the first living cells to pass on a squid’s eye programme, in order to keep life going until he could produce the human brain?

DAVID: Because the focus of a clear image on a retina requires precise engineering of the curve of the lens, once the proper proteins are found. The complexity of the retina itself, the specialized neuron receptors of light waves that send impulses to a brain that can interpret the signals as pictures of reality. Only a designing mind can do this, my constant theory. Communities of cells are first organized by a designing mind. They do not self-organize or invent.

I am not disputing the complexity of the squid’s eye. You will not dispute the complexity of an ant city. I am proposing that both are originally invented by communities pooling their intelligence: cells and ants. I accept that it is only a hypothesis, but I do not accept your authoritative statement that the hypothesis is wrong and cells do not self-organize or invent. It certainly fits the history of evolution better than the hypothesis that your God preprogrammed every innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder 3.8 billion years ago, or personally dabbled them all, in order to fulfil his one and only purpose of producing the human brain.