SEE WHAT I MEAN...?

You’re seeing these words through a focusing lens and a light-control ‘aperture’ - a self-cleaning, self-repairing camera.

Images hit 125,000,000 photocells in each eye. They’re 25 times as sensitive as the best film. Each has a ‘light catcher’, a ‘power station’ (processing 70+ chemicals), and a nucleus with more stored information than a 30-volume encyclopaedia.

They feed into a pre-processing computer - 3,000,000 ganglion cells - then up the optic nerve to part of the brain that’s set up to decode them.

Atheistic evolution says there’s no God to create, and our animal ancestors were blind until the eye developed through mutation (a freak genetic change).

But how? Bit by bit? It’s impossible to imagine just one eye evolving with a few hundred million parts in working order, but it wouldn’t work without muscles to focus it, ganglia, optic nerves and specialised brain-cells. A mutant fish with a useless eye would look pretty silly. OK, no-one would see it, but they’d eat it, because the useless weight would slow it down. No more mutant…

Or did the whole system evolve together? The odds of that are ridiculous.

The Bible gives a different story. It says there was a God who was:

  1. smart enough to design incredible machinery
  2. powerful enough to build it
  3. loving enough to bother

“In the beginning, God created…” Sure, things have changed since then. Mutation and natural selection make animals adapt - that’s micro-evolution. But it didn’t make us.

Genesis chapters 1-2 don’t try to explain how God created. The Bible was written in a pre-scientific age, and it’s about life and spirituality, not science. But it does explain big issues about creation.

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