What Good is Half an Eye?

How does one group of animals evolve one of these new molecules? One way is to borrow it. Joram Piatigorsky of the National Eye Institute and his colleagues have identified many of the molecules that make up the lens and cornea of humans and other animals. These molecules are practically identical to molecules found elsewhere in the body. Some are essential for the development of the head in an embryo. Others protect our cells from heat and other stress, others detoxify poisons that would otherwise build up in the blood.

Originally, the evidence indicates, many of the molecules found in eyes today were only produced in other parts of the body. But then, thanks to a mutation, the same gene began producing its molecule in the developing eye. It just so happened to have the physical properties that made it well suited to being in an eye. In later generations, natural selection favored mutations that made it work better in the eye.

This is impossible. Islands of functionality are separated by insurmountable distance, according to the leading ID Theorists. I’m sure they wouldn’t have just made such a thing up. Joram Piatigorsky must be part of the global conspiracy to hide the truth.

I’ve never seen my comrade before. Maybe he’s just riding on the coattails of fame and renoun.