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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, birds, empirical science, evolution, glaucoma, human eye, hunters, intelligent design, John Ray, light, Nathan Lents, photoreceptor cells, retina, vision}

Did Nathan Lents Refute Design?

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Today our knowledge of the eye’s design is far more detailed. Particularly striking are the incredible mechanisms at the molecular level. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, chromophore, Cicero, evolution, eye, intelligent design, John Ray, natural theology, neurotransmitter, photoreceptor cells, retina, signal transduction, sodium ions, vision, voltage}

The Eye: A Classic Example of Natural Design

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Even Charles Darwin, after publishing his theory of evolution, privately admitted “The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 6, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blindness, brain, cerebral cortex, eyes, form, mind, neurobiology, occipital lobes, perception, person, philosophy of mind, retina, sensations, soul}

The Mystery of Blindsight Helps Us Understand the Mind Better

_{Michael Egnor
April 6, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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Blindsight is the remarkable ability of some blind people to sense objects that they cannot actually see. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
August 10, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", compound eye, computers, convergent evolution, cornea, evolution, eye, functional specification, Golgi apparatus, Human, intelligent design, iris, lens, mitochondria, nucleus, optic nerve, programming, retina, Ribosome, visual cortex}

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

_{Walter Myers III
August 10, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
June 26, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, “backwards retina”, biologists, birth, blood vessels, brain, Darwinism, evolution, fetus, humans, marsupials, octopuses, ostrich, Perfect Human Body, placental mammals, prosthetics, retina, Richard Dawkins, vertebrates}

The Perfect Human Body?

_{Jonathan Wells
June 26, 2018

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
April 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, blind spot, capillaries, cephalopod, choriocapillaris, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, George Williams, human eye, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Losos, Kenneth Mason, Kenneth Miller, Nathan Lents, optic nerve, oxygen, photocell, photoreceptor cell, retina, retinal pigment epithelium, Richard Dawkins, Richard Young, Susan Singer, The Blind Watchmaker, toxins, vertebrate}

Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
April 13, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Vertebrate eyes work reasonably well, Richard Dawkins conceded, but “it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer!” Read More ›

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Date
December 5, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), beetles, Biomimetics, bivalve, eyes, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Leslie Orgel, Lund University, Mollusca, mollusk, retina, scallops, seafood, spiders, telescope, Weizmann Institute, Why Evolution Is True}

Telescope-Like Eyes in a “Simple” Mollusk

_{Science and Culture
December 5, 2017

Intelligent Design

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Scientists were dumbfounded to find shellfish looking at them with hundreds of elegantly designed eyes. Read More ›

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Date
November 28, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, __video-unavailable, cilia, cochlea, Drosophila, evolution, insects, intelligent design, Living Waters, mammals, memory, molecules, Nature Communications, odor, olfaction, Olfactory Sensory Neurons, retina, salmon, smell}

“Remarkably,” Odor Code Just Doubled

_{Science and Culture
November 28, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Olfactory receptors squeeze more data out of odor molecules than previously thought. Read More ›

World Sight Day, vision awareness, ample copy space

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
August 3, 2016

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, Continuing Series, eyes, eyesight, Health & Wellness, lens, measurements, photons, pupil, retina, The Designed Body (series), transducer, velocity}

The Mystery of Vision

_{Howard Glicksman
August 3, 2016

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Without the right refractive power or eyeball diameter our earliest ancestors would have been as blind as bats. Read More ›