When one of our daughters was a toddler she would sometimes shut her eyes and say, “You can’t see me!” Many adults also think that because they can’t see God He can’t see them but the Bible says, “He who formed the eye shall He not see.” [ Psalm 94:9 ] Charles Darwin said, “I suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances … could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” Today, research shows the human eye to be the most extraordinary and complicated functioning system on earth. Here’s a tiny taste of its complexity.

The retina, the thickness of an onion skin, has been called, ‘A tissue of superlatives!’ 120 million rods sensitive to dim light, cover the retina of each eye. There are also three types of cones each containing a different pigment. These make colour vision possible in bright light and there are 6 million in each eye. At the centre of the retina cones exist at a very high density of 150,000 per square millimetre. It’s upon this we focus when we look at something carefully. Special muscles keep the eye moving at 30-70 times per second. This keeps the image bright and prevents it from fading by throwing it continually onto fresh sets of photoreceptors.

There are over 40 fundamentally different eye designs throughout nature and each works perfectly well for its owner, even the simplest are infinitely complex. Finally the discovery of Pax 6, a master regulatory gene which can trigger the development of a variety of eyes makes the evidence for design overwhelming.

Obviously the eye Maker is not blind and His obedient children love to know He’s watching them. But the disobedient ask for trouble like someone overtaking a police car at 40 in a 30mph zone! The officer might say, “Do you think I’m blind?!”