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HARUN YAHYA
record the visual information, then transmit it to the optic nerve.
At any one time, over ten million electrical signals are being sent down
one million nerves from the eye to the brain. Owing to this magnitude of in-
formation, from time to time the links are known to snap, sending any sig-
nals they were carrying to a wrong location in the brain. The eye's flawless
design is equipped for such an eventuality, however, so that our vision is
never disrupted.
Even more amazing is that a vast network of cells allows the signal to be
carried down another path, from the wrong part of the brain to the visual
center. Considering this, is it possible to call such parts of the brain "wrong"?
In reality, the answer is no. An apparent mistake in fact reveals a mirac-
ulous phenomenon. While one would expect misled visual signals to simply
be lost and unrecoverable, the brain cells rescue and restore them to their
original destination. When such a signal reaches them, the cells act as if they
knew it was a signal coming from the eye that needs to go to the visual cen-
ter. They have no obligation to do so, but allow the signal to go to the brain's
visual center by building the requisite connections and organization. In this
way, there are no defects in an image which otherwise, would be interrupted
and fragmentary.
Who gave the brain cells this unique ability? Is it truly possible that bil-
lions of tiny cells, each with the same instructions, could have evolved into
their current state? Moreover, besides knowing their own function, these
cells, must be aware of other actions occurring throughout the body and
have to be able to come into play in case of any failure, even though it is not
their responsibility. Could this really have come to pass through a series of
coincidences?
These details up until now constitute the first phase of the seeing
process; one which still contains many unknowns. When we consider the
later phases of seeing, it becomes apparent how much of a mystery the entire
process actually is.
For over twenty years, David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel have been
researching the eye. At the end of his book Eye, Brain and Vision, the Harvard
neuroscientist Hubel stated:

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