Two of those eyes may have evolved into a part of the brain called the pineal gland
Eyes are one of the fastest organs to develop simply because small mutations in structure can convey enormous advantages. There’s also a very clear through line between light sensitive patches, cup shaped light sensitive patches, pinhole eyes, and complex eyes. Every stage on the road to complex eyes gives some kind of distinct advantage.
Eyes remain simple for a long time only because complicated eyes weren’t necessary for early creatures to be successful. The moment more complex eyes began to convey a competitive advantage, they developed in a flash, evolutionarily speaking.
It’s really funny to hear you say that, when I was being taught young earth creationism that was one of the examples they loved were eyes, especially like octopus eyes for some reason. But then you actually look at evolution and it’s clear how eyes evolved.
I’ve heard of that before. It’s quite funny to me because I grew up surrounded by a lot of extremely academic Catholics for whom every new detail about biology, physics, and mathematics became an affirmation of the wonders of creation.
For all its issues, the Catholic Church has had to adapt to survive as an institution, so mechanisms for change and ideological wiggle room were built in over the last 500 or so years. This is in contrast to groups like Southern Baptists and other fundamentalists, whose purpose is to be an ideological lock on other institutions, namely slavery and then Jim Crow. The point of Biblical literalism is to demand ideological obedience without wiggle room.
Do you have anything I can read/watch on eye evolution specifically? I love this biology stuff damn
Damn bro I already opened my third eye now you’re telling me I got a fourth in there???
My fourth eye is calcified.
goddamn aluminum manufacturers
Words cannot convey how angry I am right now that I don’t have extra eyes
Well you have a pineal gland which is where your soul lives so perhaps be grateful for what you have
where your soul lives
Making generous assumptions about the condition of my soul
should of asked the devil for those other two eyes back
This is what they took from you
NEEERRRRDS!
myllokunmingids
I’m dyslexic and I love scientific names I can’t pronounce.
-–
Ninja edit
mil-o-kun-min-gids - Oh, thanks again scientists! My joke doesn’t even work!
Kinda crazy that the pineal gland fans had a point.
