Evolution of the eye & foreseeing the future
Jun 2nd, 2008 by Brad
Evolution of the eye – It is not irreducibly complex
The National Center for Science Education has a youtube video about the evolution of eye. This shows the key flaws with intelligent design’s irreducible complexity argument for the eye.
Two of my personal arguments against intelligent design are the relatively poor design of the human knee (should have been done better) and the poor design of the lower back (ask anyone with lower back pains).
Foreseeing the future – a tenth of a second at a time
Researchers have known for a while that it takes about one-tenth of a second between when light hits your retina and when the brain translates that signal into a perception of the world. While it seems like a small amount of time, lags of a tenth of a second can cause lots of errors in our movement in the world.
Mark Changizi (RPI) has show that to compensate our visual system projects images that will occur one-tenth of a second into the future. His research shows that this “1/10th second guess” is the source of many optical illusions.
…and of course some artists take advantage of this.
to read more, see Jeanna Bryner article on Live Science:
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080602-foresee-future.html
