God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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to 18,000 nerve cells whose fibres communicate
with the brain.
The Eye
is the world’s most efficient television
station: it takes flawless pictures in colour and
transmits them without the least blurring to the
brain. It takes a photographer to appreciate fully the
working of the eye. Like any camera, it is a small
dark box, with an aperture in front-fitted with a
transparent pane. In front of the pane there is a
shutter of variable speed (the iris), with an
adjustable slit and automatic release. Behind this,
there is the crystalline lens whose curvature is
continually adjusted by automatic muscles so that
whatever is looked at is always sharply in focus. Six
large powerful muscles control the movements of
the eye and point it in any desired direction.
The delicate parts of this precision instrument are
kept clean by the eyelids, which are window-wipers
and use a cleaning fluid secreted by a gland at the
corner of the eye and poured in through a siphon. A
constant temperature is maintained, as in any
laboratory with highly sensitive apparatus, by
means of a heat regulating membrane, the choroid.
