"Fearfully and Wonderfully Designed".


URL: https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/fearfully-and-wonderfully-designed.html

Oh yes? Are we? 

Let's talk about vision. Are you a trichromat or a tetrachromat? Which is the most "wonderfully designed"? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichromacy
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And then there is vision in birds. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_vision

And cephalopods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye

And what about the mantis shrimp? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp

"The eyes of the mantis shrimp are mounted on mobile stalks and can move independently of each other. The extreme mobility allows them to be rotated in all three dimensions, yet the position of their eyes has shown to have no effect on the perception of their surroundings. They are thought to have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom and have the most complex front-end for any visual system ever discovered. Compared with the three types of photoreceptor cell that humans possess in their eyes, the eyes of a mantis shrimp have between 12 and 16 types of photoreceptor cells." - Wikipedia.

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