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(Figure 1.2). The eyelids
are automatically trig-
gered whenever contact
is made with the cornea,
eyelashes, forehead or eye-
brows. As in an early warning
system, the alert is sent down
nerve paths to activate the eye-
lids. This diagram shows just a few
of the special nerves constituting
this early warning system—an example
of God's flawless art of creation.

the immaculately fine design of its architecture. For every reflex described
above, different impulses are routed from different neural paths. The eye's
peripheries are stuffed by such early-warning nets (Figure 1.2).
The brain, evaluating these fast-traveling warnings, dispatches neural
impulses to the relevant muscles, routing them without ever making a single
error along the chaotic network. Within a thousandth of a second, the warn-
ing signal reaches the brain and returns as a command, by which the eyelid
closes in time to protect or cleanse the eyeball. The process of identifying the
emergent danger and creating different reflexes by means of signals travel-
ing along different neural paths is extremely complex.
For survival, man needs to be informed, with no interruptions, of his
ever-changing environment. To satisfy this condition, blinking occupies only
a very brief time without disrupting the continuity of perception. Any
longer blinking time might cause serious dangers—while driving on the
highway, for instance, and not noticing a suddenly appearing truck in time
to swerve.

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