I found a website focused on what scientists are really saying about the problems with the theory of evolution. Despite the constant drumbeat in the media, and the enforcement of the evolutionist viewpoint in the schools, honest scientists, even ones with no particular religious leanings, admit to serious fundamental problems in the theory of evolution, and that website catalogs many of their statements.

One of the classic creationist claims is that the eye is an example of intelligent design. Creationists ask, "How could the eye have evolved and been functional during evolution without all of it's parts?"

The evolutionist claims that creatures developed eyes from a patch of light sensitive skin. Somehow over time the creatures evolved (through mutations) to add more and more function to that patch until eventually fully complicated eyes with lens, retinas, pupils, and a variety of eye colors were the result. There is no actual proof of this theory, no one has ever seen eyes develop in this way, there are no transitional fossils showing this. In fact some of the earliest fossils with eyes, the trilobytes, have fully formed complicated compound eyes with multiple lenses. Nothing leads up to them. So this idea of eyes evolving from light sensitive patches of skin is just one of those "well it had to happen this way" kinds of ideas. And other animals happened to evolve "eye spots" on their wings, which really aren't eyes, just patches of pigmentation that look like eyes to scare away predators. No scientist has ever talked with a predator to see if they are really fooled, but the science books teach our children these kinds of "facts" to support evolution.

Evolutionists have invented family trees to describe how different animals supposedly evolved from others. Again, honest scientists admit there is no way to really know for sure what animal developed from another, it's all conjecture. It is fun to study the history of evolutionist debates over this issue and how it was mostly about politics and power, in the absence of actual transitional species, that determined the family trees. Because of these hypothetical family trees, the evolutionists will claim that apparently eyes have developed in parallel in several different kinds of animals. What we do know, what we can readily observe, is that spider eyes are different from cat eyes, which are different from dog eyes, lizard eyes, and people eyes. Ditto the surrounding anatomical structures that support those eyes. One might wonder why no kinds of plants have developed eyes, eventhough many parts of plants are incredibly photo-sensitive. But the supposed evolution of plants is another mess, from a scientific point of view.

I remember as a kid, the local natural history museum had a big cave exhibit, and in the cave were all kinds of cave animals. They even had cave fish that had lost their eye sight. Those made an impression on me. Evolutionists like to claim those sightless fish are an example of evolution, when really they are an example of just the opposite. They are fish born with a mutation that removed a fully functioning organ. The mutation was destructive, it removed a fully functional organ, it did not add a new organ with a useful function. Normally, such a change would have put the animal at a great disadvantage. But because the fish were in the dark already, it wasn't a handicap and didn't hurt their survival like it would have for life outside the cave. So those fish adapted to their mutation, and continued to live only in the caves where not having eyes was no longer a drawback to survival.

Creationists like to point out so many examples of organs and systems in the body that wouldn't function without all of their parts, to show that our bodies were designed, and not the result of random mutations like evolutionists claim. Even Darwin wondered about the eye, and mused at how it was possibly the most cogent argument against his theory.

Anyhow, today, I finally visited my eye doctor. I had an encounter with just how well an incomplete eye works, a first hand personal lesson in the silliness of the idea of evolution.

Dr. Mozayani at Marin Eye Care asked my permission to dilate my pupils so that she could get a really good view inside my eyes. She said it is possible to identify all kinds of problems including tears, detachments, tumors, kidney problems, etc., by a good look at the eyes. So she placed the eye dilating drops in my eyes, and after 15 minutes or so she took a good look all around inside my eyes.

She then gave me some disposable sunglasses. She warned me against driving, and I tried to go home, but just the glare from the reflection off my motorcycle gas tank coming around the sunglasses was way too much to be able to drive.

When I was finally able to get on my motorcycle and go home, I thought about what it would be like to go home after an auditory exam that somehow involved the numbing of my sense of balance. That would probably be disasterous. It's interesting to contemplate our ability to do something like drive a motorcycle, all the things in our bodies that need to work together to do a complicated activity.

But until I was able to go home, I sat around at a Red Boy Pizza, eating garlic bread, sort of watching sports, trying to read the paper, and calling my friends to tell them how much my day had been inconvenienced by my allowing the doctor to do this test on me, on what seemed like the brightest and sunniest day of the year! For the next three hours, I suffered through having non-working pupils, and being barely able to see close up with my glasses on. Somehow my ability to focus close, while my glasses were on, was really knocked out by those dilating eye drops. The bartender at the pizza place laughed at how weird I looked with my dilated pupils. I had fun showing off my disposable paper sun glasses.

While at the eye doctors office, I discussed with the doctor the phenomenon of visual migraines. She explained to me how it is important to make notes about what you are doing when they occur. Eventually you can go back and discover what the triggers are, and then avoid those triggers. Some triggers might be weather change, or even internal stress that you don't realize you are having. It is amazing to think about the things that can have a negative effect on our ability to see. None of these things improve our ability to see. My doctor friend has a whole practice devoted to the myriad problems and changes that can negatively affect our eyesight. I imagine she doesn't see many examples of people having changes to their eyes that improve their overall function.

When considering all the things that can go wrong, consider how any of them might be caused from birth by a mutation. When you consider the vast number of aspects of perfectly functioning vision that can be negatively impacted by a mutation, it's no wonder that every mutation that scientists have catalogued has a bad effect on the functions of the organism.

While I waited for my eyes to recover, I contemplated for those hours just how useless my eyes were without all their working parts. I contemplated my small taste of partial vision, and how silly it would be for me to complain to a friend who has normal looking eyes, but was born blind. I was finally able to take a walk back outside to go get my mail, and make a bank deposit. I walked in the shadows wherever I could. One of my eyes recovered a little bit quicker, so I walked around with my other eye half closed.

As I was walking around, I marvelled at the range of lighting conditions that our eyes are able to handle. I thought about how neat it would be to get some of those eye drops to try at night to see if dilating my pupils would help my night vision. But then I realized how any source of extra light like a headlight would be really painful because my eyes ability to adjust to it would be compromised.

Then I thought about how amazing it is that the eyes are able to handle automatically making the needed changes for the full range of night and day and even a sunny snow swept mountain terrain. Our eyes function best when nothing is interfering with their operation. Isn't it amazing how our brain is able to adjust for things like an incorrect eye glass prescription, or compensate for the extra shadows and mismatch between the images from the eyes caused by a newly developed astigmatism?

How amazing the fully functioning eye is, and all the circuitry that supports it. How crippled it can be if just one part isn't working right.

Can you go through such an experience and still believe that random mutations in your ancestors somehow led to your miraculous eyes?

I can't....

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. - Psalms 139:14