On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:08:05PM +1300, LizR wrote: > Damn it, I've often cited this as an example of unintelligent design and > now the creationists get the last laugh. Oh well that's science! > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-purpose-of-our-eyes-strange-wiring-is-unveiled >
The explanation still seems a bit sus. Firstly, there is a glaring hole in our vision that is only fixed up by a bit of fancy footwork on the brain's behalf. Secondly, if it works so well for daytime vision, what about our mammalian forebears who would need nighttime vision more, since they were out and about while the dinosaurs were sleeping? Still strikes me as a papered-over cocked-up design! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
