Page 127 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

The retina transforms
Veins in the optical cavity
the image into neural
feed the retina.
signals.
The cornea assists with Optic nerve connects
the focusing of light. the eye to the brain.

The lens focuses
the image.

The sclera is a firm, white
layer that covers the eye-
Light enters through
the opening of the ball.
pupil. The iris muscles control
how much light will enter.

The eye, one of the manifestations of God's superior Creation, has been
created in a way that permits it to function in the most efficient manner.

times as much as ones in the cerebral cortex and six times as much
as the cells that make up the cardiac muscle. Moreover, this com-
parison is made on the basis of the entire retina layer; the photore-

ceptor cells, which make up less than half of this layer, actually
need more energy than the whole layer estimates. In his encyclo-
pedic book, The Vertebrate Eye, G. L. Walls, describes the photore-
ceptors as "greedy'' for both nutrients and oxygen. 70
How do these cells, that enable us to see, meet their
extraordinary need for nourishment and oxygen?
Through the blood, of course, like the
rest of the body.

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