20 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
The Idiotic Design of the Eye
Hermann von Helmholtz, the great nineteenthcentury German scientist (you could call him a physicist, but his contributions to biology and psychology were greater), said, of the eye: 'If an optician wanted to sell me an instrument which had all these defects, I should think myself quite justified in blaming his carelessness in the strongest terms, and giving him back his instrument.' One reason why the eye seems better than Helmholtz, the physicist, judged it to be is that the brain does an am...Folksonomies: evolution intelligent design
Folksonomies: evolution intelligent design
Wired backwards with a blind spot.