Evolution+of+the+Eye

**By: George Wyatt**
 * The Evolution of the eye**

The evolution of the eye is a major point for creationism. It is said that nothing as complex as the eye can be produced through evolution. Even leading evolutionist Charles Darwin is quoted as saying “To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.” However the previous statement was followed by “Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound.” The “eye-dea” behind the eye forming due to evolution starts with a patch of light sensitive tissue. This allowed prey to remotely detect predators and food. This gave the prey and unfair advantage, and through natural selection, predators soon developed their own version of the early “eye”. Through several thousand stages, the developed more and more to detect patterns of light more vividly. So the thought of the eye being made through evolution isn’t crazy. There is no actual evidence for either side of the story. It is all theory, but there said to be variations of the eye caught in different stages of evolution in nature. Some birds can see ultraviolet rays while other organisms, such as the jumping spider, have several pairs of eyes adapted to perform a specific task. This proves that eyes have evolved to the point where they have the capacity to perform several tasks at once.