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M MIRACLE IN THE EYE

For a moment, imagine that the eyes appeared suddenly, by accident,
in an organism complete with all its organelles, tissues, liquids, glands
and extensions including the relevant vision center of the brain. That
would still be far from being enough for the eyes to function. They require
the body's digestion system, the liver and bone marrow for the essential
chemical and subsystems that support them. If such systems haven't yet
evolved, then the accidental appearance of complete and perfect vision is
pointless, since it cannot function. In short, it is not possible for any single
portion of the eye to have evolved coincidentally. The eye and all its com-
ponents were created by God:
Say: "Have you thought about your partner gods, those you call
upon besides God? Show me what they have created of the earth;
or do they have a partnership in the heavens?" Have We given them
a Book whose clear signs they follow? No indeed! The wrongdoers
promise each other nothing but delusion. (Qur'an, 35: 40)
To continue observing this miracle of creation, let's take an in-depth
analysis of a teardrop's content.
98.2 percent of it is water, the rest being urea, found in the same pro-
portion as in the blood plasma and, in lesser proportions, glucose, salts
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and organic substances, of which lysozyme constitutes only a small frac-
tion. In other words, tears are a special liquid that contains different sub-
stances in different proportions.
Among the various components of the teardrop, a thin film of fat se-
creted by glands slows the teardrop's evaporation. This thin film, yet an-
other amazing detail, rules out our eyes' drying out prematurely.
So who has coated the teardrop with a protective fatty layer that re-
tards the effects of evaporation? How could such a specialized formula
come about?
Tears are also secreted in accurate quantities, just enough to protect
the cornea from drying and to maintain the eyeball's characteristic slip-
periness. Thus, when the eyeball rotates, there is no uncomfortable fric-
tion between its upper layer and the conjunctiva inside of the eyelid.

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