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Old 12-21-2005, 06:31 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by abaya
I believe it was Richard Dawkins ("The Selfish Gene" author and powerhouse for evolution) who pointed out how badly "designed" the human eye was. If it was indeed designed, it was not done so intelligently... it is a hugely inefficient mechanism that has obviously evolved in fits and starts.
I'm reading that book now, i like his views on things

When people see all these species pootling around doing their thang, what they fail to recognise that for every single creature, there are probably 10 trillion others that have died because their genes made them vunerable in some way, and they snuffed it.
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