Maybe it’s because I really loved my Christian Evidences class at Freed-Hardeman, but I really have been enthralled with apologetics lately. I’ve been reading books (shocker!) and studying my notes, and I decided that now would be the best time to present an idea that I had. I am going to start a series for Neil’s Niche called “Questions Every Atheist (and Christian) Should Ask.” The next few weeks will have questions that I have ran across that seem to go unanswered if dealing with evolution, yet fit in perfectly with a theology in which God created the world. These are questions that I hope you look into and try to answer on your own, and hopefully if ever dealing with an atheist you may ask them that same question. So here goes the first one:

How did the eye evolve?

The human eye (or any eye for that matter) is one of the most complicated things in the biological world. It can process 36,000 bits of information every hour, it can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body, and it is composed of more than two million working parts. So the question is: how did it develop if evolution is true? Did it just find the right parts one day and decide to start working? Or did it evolve over millions of years? If the latter is the case, how was it able to “happen” to form itself into the working eye that we have today? How could the eye have worked if the more than 2,000,000 parts had not developed at the same time? Can an eye see when the nerve endings don’t work? Can the eye see when the iris isn’t formed? What about when the pupil isn’t fully formed? How could a working eye evolve when all the parts were not formed yet?

Here is my contention: there is an obvious design within human eye. Since there is a design there MUST be a designer… God.