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Lionel Mandrake

(4,214 posts)

4. Not exactly the same eyes.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat May 17, 2014, 07:23 PM

May 2014

We focus our eyes by pulling on the lens to change its shape. A squid moves the lens closer to, or further away from, the retina.

The intelligent designer was having a bad day when he got to our retinae. He put the nerves and blood vessels out in front of the photoreceptors. How dumb was that? He did a better job for squids and octopi, which have their photoreceptors out in front.

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Humans and squid evolved same eyes using same genes [View all] Playinghardball May 2014 OP

And fundie heads explode... silverweb May 2014 #1

The common ancestor to mammals and squids was blind. longship May 2014 #2

Gawd speaks, like, real loud... Thor_MN May 2014 #3

Not exactly the same eyes. Lionel Mandrake May 2014 #4