Mr. Neil (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mister_neil) wrote,@ 2008-04-24 08:45:00 |
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| Entry tags: | science, youtube |
Think the eye was designed? Too bad!
The NCSE is releasing a series of videos on YouTube going after the various creationist claims, and right away, they go after a big one: THE EYE. While the video is simplistic (i.e., it lacks a formal explanation that would require much more time), it demonstrates the having a lack of imagination is not an argument for intelligent design. As usual, it's just an argument from ignorance, as ALL arguments for creation are.
One thing the video doesn't point out is a prefectly sound explanation of why the eye is essentially built upside-down. Photo-sensative cells that detect the top of the image are actually at the bottom, and those that detect the bottom of the image are at the top. But in the video demonstration, you can actually see why this occurs. As the photo-sensative cells cup, the cells on the bottom point upward, and the ones at the top point downward, thus inverting the picture as it enters the eye.
Intelligent design has no explanation for this whatsoever for the eye being built this way, and thus they have to fall back on the old canard, "It was designed that way". Ah, question-begging. Gotta love it.
Why do people laugh at creationists? Only creationists don't understand why.*
*slogan lovingly borrowed from Thunderfoot.
