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M MIRACLE IN THE EYE

on a single line every second. This system saves huge amounts of re-
sources, but the concept is identical to that used in eye-to-brain commu-
nications. Just as one telephone line can support hundreds of calls, a
ganglion can support hundreds of electrical signals on their way to the
brain at any one time.
As this example demonstrates, the human body is made up of count-
less advanced systems. Now, pushing aside impossibility for a moment,
let's try to explain this system in line with the theory of evolution.
Assume that all the layers that make up the eye—including the lens,
cornea and eye muscles, the brain, one million ganglion cells, 140 million
retina cells, eyelids, tears and blood vessels—all evolved at the same time,
through a series of coincidences. But if this impossibility were so, the eye
would still not function, because there wouldn't be an adequate number of
nerve routes connecting the retina to the brain, with the result of broken
and missing signals. Only one in every 140 signals would be able to reach
the brain.
How was this obstacle overcome? Did all the nerve cells and retina
cells communicate and make a plan? Or did they attend a telecommunica-
tions course and consequently, devise a system by which one route could
be used for 140 separate signals? The obvious answer is that the cells
somehow organized themselves and unanimously adopted the current
system. Eventually, every ganglion started to support the signals of an av-
erage of 140 sources—shifting the order of the sources and transmitting
thousands of signals every second.
But simply devising this system was not enough; the system had to be
passed onto succeeding generations. This meant that thousands of lines of
genetic information had to be placed flawlessly inside the reproductive
cells, which were quite a distance away from the eye cells. If this never took
place, children would be born blind, and eventually mankind would be-
come extinct.
If this problem concerning the retina and nerve cells had not been
solved, other eye components—such as the cornea, lens, pupil and eye

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