The Eye and the Wonders of God

PD by ZStardust

“Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law” (Ps. 119: 18).

The human body is amazing.  It is a wonder of engineering, which points toward a Creator for all those willing to acknowledge Him.

A smartphone with the following features would be considered extremely advanced:

• A panoramic field of view;
• 210 degrees of horizontal view;
• 4K facial recognition technology with the ability to identify a friend in a crowded room [1];
• “God-level” dynamic range (the range of brightness a camera can capture) from cave darkness to glare;
• 20 “stops” of light, i.e. measurements of exposure doubling or halving the amount of light reaching the sensor (the light sensitive component), allowing precise control over image brightness;
• Hyperfocused 576 megapixel mode which maximize depth of field, so that everything is acceptably sharp [2];
• Better than 4K 20/20 ultra-detailed stitching of images into video; and
• 60 frames/second smooth motion with Artificial Intelligence (AI) prediction and “fill in memory” recall.

Yet the human eye has all these features without the need for AI [3].

The eye of the brown bear, in addition, has a membrane called the tapetum lucidum behind the retina which reflects light back into the eye [12]. This gives the bear excellent night vision.

“To suppose that the eye…could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”

–Charles Darwin [4A]

To be fair, Charles Darwin continued by saying that evolution of the eye could be possible, if science found multiple connected gradations from simple to complex in the fossil record [4B].

But revolutionary developments in biology are providing stronger evidence than ever of a purposeful Creator [5][6][7][8]. 

Darwin viewed evolution as the result of blind chance, random and wholly undirected.  That cannot, however, explain the frequently observed phenomenon of convergence where the same structures exist in organisms which are not closely related, for instance, wings in insects, bats, and birds, or the eye of the octopus, the bear, and man [9][10]. 

This is now being attributed to “evolved purposiveness”.  In other words, there must at a minimum exist structuralist laws in nature which science does not understand.  In fact, there are strong indications all life forms – even single celled organisms – have some degree of agency. They impact their environment while their environment impacts them. That challenges the materialist and reductionist views prevalent in the scientific world.

Teleonomy is the study of the apparent goal-directedness in living systems without reference to a Creator [11].  To recognize God’s hand at work in creation, we must have spiritual perception, spiritual eyes as it were.  Yet the wonder of His creation is all around us, if we will only choose to see.

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[1]  Wikipedia, “4K resolution”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution.

[2]  Nine Meters, “The Highest Resolution the Eye Can See:  Limits of Human Vision” by Jonathan Kao, 3/26/24, https://9meters.com/technology/highest-resolution-the-eye-can-see.

[3]  Creation Today, “Scientific Facts in the Bible – Through David’s Eyes” with Eric and Chad Hovind, https://creationtoday.org/on-demand-classes/scientific-facts-in-the-bible-through-the-eyes-of-david-creation-today-show-469/.

[4A and 4B]  All About Science, “Darwin and the Evolution of the Eye”, https://www.allaboutscience.org/darwin-and-evolution-of-the-eye-faq.htm.

[5]  Beyond Evolution by Sye Garte PhD, published by Tyndale Refresh (8/19/25).

[6]  Evolution “On Purpose”:  Teleonomy in Living Systems, edited by Peter Corning et al, published by MIT Press (2023).

[7]  MIT Press Direct, “Evolution ‘On Purpose’:  Teleonomy in Living Systems”, edited by Peter Corning et al, https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5634/Evolution-On-Purpose-Teleonomy-in-Living-Systems.

[8]  YouTube, “Epic Exchange:  Sy Garte Stands His Ground with James Tour on #evolution”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqfPJQg8m5U.

[9]  Wikipedia, “Cephalopod eye”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye.

[10]  Wikipedia, “Convergent evolution”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution.

[11]  Wikipedia, “Teleonomy”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleonomy.

[12] Wild Life Faq, “Can Bears See in the Dark, Like Night Vision?”, https://www.wildlifefaq.com/can-bears-see-in-the-dark-like-nightvision/.

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