Which of the two beliefs - religion or evolution - best explains why the 'eye' sees and how this complicated processes developed with exact timing sequences?

Answer 1

Answer 1

The eye has developed a number of independent times during the history of evolution on Earth. It is easy to see how simple light sensitivity could grow, step by slow step, into such complex viewing apparatuses as we see today. And the beauty of it is, we can still find most of those intermediary steps in nature, showing us how they would have worked.

Answer 2

That question is still debated. According to the theory of the Big Bang followed by evolution, the eye (and everything else) resulted from random events stemming from natural laws, and life then developed by random processes, especially mutations.

The narrative of Divine Creation, which is contained in Genesis ch.1 and 2, states that God created the eye and all other things.

This teaches us that God exists, that our lives and the world are not random, and that the created things may be assumed to contain vast wisdom in their beautiful and purposeful design. (In recent decades, this wisdom has indeed been partially revealed, through increasingly powerful microscopes.)There are Creationists and religious people who espouse a belief in God-guided Evolution. Other Creationists, given the difficulties in Evolutionary theory, hold that this is unnecessary and that a recent and more direct Creation is the truth.

Evolution through random mutations, on the other hand, may be understood as implying that life is an accident, that perceived beauty and wisdom are ultimately purposeless, and that our instinctive yearning for the Eternal is just an electrical impulse in our brain.

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Is there evidence against Evolution

Answer 3

If evolution were merely a belief in the same way that religion is a belief, then neither would be a better explanation, and it would be a choice we could make depending on our own preferences and biases.

Because evolution is not a belief, but is a process based on empirical evidence, evolution tells us what really happened. We can then choose to accept the evidence of science or go with the comfortable beliefs of religion. Whichever choice we make as individuals, the facts of evolution speak for themselves.

Answer 4

It would seem fair to say that science today can basically explain how the eye sees via its complicated chemical processes but they still cannot explain the 'why.' On the other hand, The Bible tells us that God created man and his/her parts but does not elaborate upon the internal processes that are involved. Even with the healing miracles of Jesus to the blind, it never speaks of any details into how sight is recovered - only the fact that is was.