Darwin has a much-quoted statement about the eye.
In his work On the Origin of Species, he wrote: ‘To suppose that the eye … could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree’.1 He adds: ‘Yet reason tells me …’ that it must have happened by variations and natural selection. This was recently referred to again in an article in Scientific American by Trevor Lamb.2 He believes that he and his co-workers have solved this dilemma.
In contrast, Bible-believers would quote the Psalmist: ‘He who formed the eye, does he not see?’3 It is clear that this verse is stating that the eye is not the result of non-directional evolution, but the intention of our God.
Before examining Lamb’s article, we need to recognise that we all come to such material with a worldview. For Bible-believers, our worldview is governed by God’s revelation in Scripture (specifically, in this case, that everything in this world was the result of special creation as a result of God’s command, though it has been damaged because of man’s sin). For the non-believer, they will see the same world but seek to find a purely naturalistic explanation (origin by evolution).
