Brian Miller on the Gift of Vision

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Astronomy, Life Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The gift of our vision is easy to take for granted. Yet, the more we dig into this amazingly intricate system, the more grateful we might get. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a two-part conversation with physicist Brian Miller about the intelligent design of the vertebrate eye. Dr. Miller reviews the evolutionary scenario for the origins of human vision, explaining where it collapses for lack of empirical evidence. Then he explains why it's helpful to approach biological systems from an engineering standpoint. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.3	welcome to I d the. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Well today I'm sitting down with
0:17.1	physicist Dr Brian Miller to discuss the intelligent design of human vision. Dr Miller is a senior fellow of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture,
0:26.5	newly minted senior fellow, where he serves as a research coordinator there.
0:31.0	He holds a BS in physics with a minor in engineering from MIT and a PhD in physics from Duke University.
0:38.0	He helps to manage the CSC's ID 3.0 research program program and he speaks internationally on the topics of
0:45.0	intelligent design and the impact of world views on society.
0:48.6	Brian, welcome back to the show.
0:50.5	It's a pleasure to be back. Well you have a presentation you've been developing and
0:55.4	presenting recently on the intelligent design of human vision and I'd like to
0:59.8	share with listeners some of your insights into this amazing system.
1:03.2	There's so much to cover of course on Vision, so we will come back to this in a second conversation.
1:08.3	But today I thought we'd start by refreshing our memory about the evolutionary scenario for how the vertebrate
1:14.8	eye came about. Let me also note here that even Charles Darwin himself acknowledged how absurd it would be to imagine human vision coming from an
1:24.7	undirected process like natural selection. In the origin of species he said
1:29.0	to suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to
1:34.7	different distances for admitting different amounts of light and for the correction of
1:39.1	spherical and chromatic aberration could have been formed by natural selection seems I freely confess
1:45.5	absurd in the highest degree.
1:47.8	But that hasn't stopped proponents of Darwinian evolution from coming up with an evolutionary
1:52.2	path to get from light sensitive spots to
1:55.4	crisp images produced by spherical eyes. In previous articles Brian you've noted
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