The evolution of the human eye
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NO DESIGN, JUST MILLIONS OF YEARS OF ADAPTATION….The human eye is not perfect, it evolved over millions of years and does a decent enough job and we get by… If there was a designer behind the human eye though, and it didn’t stumble into being via the erratic process of evolution, then that designer would need some more training or not drink so much alcohol maybe! 😮
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*Note 1 – Believers of a ‘god’ designer from times past, the majority would have agreed that it was a direct design. Design room and straight into an eye socket… Now though, with evolution as the norm in modern day cultural thinking, masses of believers concede and accept evolution as fact, however, that same designer now created the process of evolution, and he is all wonderful because of that and not with directness of KA-PLONK, straight into the socket. One set of ‘believers’ have got it wrong in that case… Or both??… These clusters of different belief systems within belief systems exist in abundance in various ways. Coincidentally forming different majorities depending on direct cultural influence from specific eras and / or regions. Or to put it another way… People do not actually believe but owners of a brain that primes them to conform without much challenging of majority opinion.
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*Note 2 – I’m not anti-religion, I do not hate religion. Human nature and formation of belief systems is a very complex process of brain structures and its by-product mind over time. The owners of the various processes are unaware of what’s truly going on between brain and eventual mindset……. Instead, I’m more pro thinking about thinking and nudging people toward being able to observe contradictions and biases and why they would come about. There is really no point in hating and ridiculing… 🙂 I myself as a human, susceptible to a whole multitude of irrational thoughts and behavior patterns, I am not exempt! It’s part of the duck and dive survival process of life. As a teenager for example when asked by mates about length during our boyish conversations, my penis became 3.2 inches bigger on average in response than it actually was…. etc etc… I don’t mean to be crude… but you know what I mean….. We do whatever we can to uphold high status, and conformity is one of them…. Wearing brand names and following fashion, and recently the bombardment of allover tattoos is within the same bracket of conformity similar to religion… Clusters… Tattoo artists have been around for many, many years…. A majority forming allover body tattoos though only very recent… Why not spread out over time? Fear of ridicule for being different the main reason.
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*Note 3 – In case ‘believers’ (conformists) missed it a couple of weeks ago when I posted.. Have you noticed that with all those healing and miracles from millions of prayers made as claimed over time … THE PROPOSED GOD HAS NEVER HEALED AN AMPUTEE…. He completely ignores every single one of them it seems but deals with all that nature or modern day medicinal practices can cure too coincidentally. Does that make you wonder why? 😮
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*Questions 1, 2, 3 – Is God an alcoholic? Is God evil? Is God not omniscient as first thought? Or…. he does not exist the way you were indoctrinated into thinking by cultural norms… (that last one was not a question.) Thoughts are welcome… have a great weekend! 🙂Â
By Panayiotis Stavrou
[Video source: TED-Ed You Tube channel]
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