The phenomenon of colors brought me to this; isn’t it…

The phenomenon of colors brought me to this; isn’t it amazing that it’s impossible to explain colors perceived through the complex mechanism of the human eye transmitted to the human brain through the optic nerve by natural means?

As someone that paints, and enjoys Gods beautiful landscapes with the vast amounts of diversity in nature, I must ask: where did colors come from?

“The retina of the human eye has three receptors for colored light. One type of receptor is most sensitive to red light, one to green light, and one to blue light. With these three color receptors, we are able to perceive more than a million different shades of color.” -Khan Academy

Why is it that the laws of physics and the biology of the human eye limits us on the amount of colors we can perceive through the three receptors of colored light in the retina of the human eye?

You can’t think of a color in your mind which doesn’t exist.. Even the greatest scientists can’t alter physics to create a new color, and though there’s colors we can’t see because we lack the optic lenses to, they exist. The only plausible answer to this phenomenon is that God created colors through the omitting and reflecting of wavelengths perceived through the eyes of various living organisms.

Categories: #ourCOG

3 comments

Christian Larbi-damptey says:

May 13, 2020 at 5:51 pm

And some foolish scientists say there is no God who made all these? Hmm

Jake Mills says:

May 13, 2020 at 9:39 pm

There are plenty of animals who have much more sophisticated eyes than we do, and can detect a much wider range of electromagnetic radiation.

It just so happens that our photoreceptors are sensitive to a narrow range of electromagnetic wavelength, and that blue, green, and red are roughly the beginning, middle, and end of our perceptible wavelengths. It’s hard to imagine what other animals can see simply because we don’t have a point of reference for what it might be like to experience other wavelengths.

The eye is not as complicated as the typical Christian apologist would like to believe. It’s an organ that is very well understood and the diversity of eyes in the animan kingdom is very wide ranging, from some species having no more than a few photoreceptor cells beneath the skin (some worms, jellyfish, and sponges) to the mantis shrimp which has between 12 and 16 different type of photoreceptors cells. In comparison to many other species, human eyes aren’t actually that great.

The word “color” is how we define the perceptions within the wavelengths we can see. It has nothing to do with physics, it’s just a name for a certain narrow band in the greater electromagnetic spectrum. But there’s not much fundamental difference between a wavelength that we can see and one we can’t. It’s all the same type of wave… just a bit bigger or smaller.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t really understand how the argument “our eyes aren’t very well made and can only see a small range of electromagnetic radiation, therefore God is great.”

Even if the eye was amazing, saying “this is complicated and I don’t understand it, therefore God is the only answer” would be ridiculous!

No significant discovery in the history of humanity was ever discovered because someone thought “I don’t understand this, therefore God.” It starts with “I don’t understand this, but I want to try.” There is no room for assuming god when you’re trying to figure out the truth of the universe. The eye isn’t that special, it’s just some cells that can detect certain wavelengths of light in an incredibly understood and predictable fashion.

The phenomenon of colors brought me to this; isn’t it… #ourCOG – ourcog says:

March 5, 2021 at 12:00 pm

[…] The phenomenon of colors brought me to this; isn’t it… […]

Discussion

Christian Larbi-damptey says:

May 13, 2020 at 5:51 pm

And some foolish scientists say there is no God who made all these? Hmm

Jake Mills says:

May 13, 2020 at 9:39 pm

There are plenty of animals who have much more sophisticated eyes than we do, and can detect a much wider range of electromagnetic radiation.

It just so happens that our photoreceptors are sensitive to a narrow range of electromagnetic wavelength, and that blue, green, and red are roughly the beginning, middle, and end of our perceptible wavelengths. It’s hard to imagine what other animals can see simply because we don’t have a point of reference for what it might be like to experience other wavelengths.

The eye is not as complicated as the typical Christian apologist would like to believe. It’s an organ that is very well understood and the diversity of eyes in the animan kingdom is very wide ranging, from some species having no more than a few photoreceptor cells beneath the skin (some worms, jellyfish, and sponges) to the mantis shrimp which has between 12 and 16 different type of photoreceptors cells. In comparison to many other species, human eyes aren’t actually that great.

The word “color” is how we define the perceptions within the wavelengths we can see. It has nothing to do with physics, it’s just a name for a certain narrow band in the greater electromagnetic spectrum. But there’s not much fundamental difference between a wavelength that we can see and one we can’t. It’s all the same type of wave… just a bit bigger or smaller.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t really understand how the argument “our eyes aren’t very well made and can only see a small range of electromagnetic radiation, therefore God is great.”

Even if the eye was amazing, saying “this is complicated and I don’t understand it, therefore God is the only answer” would be ridiculous!

No significant discovery in the history of humanity was ever discovered because someone thought “I don’t understand this, therefore God.” It starts with “I don’t understand this, but I want to try.” There is no room for assuming god when you’re trying to figure out the truth of the universe. The eye isn’t that special, it’s just some cells that can detect certain wavelengths of light in an incredibly understood and predictable fashion.

The phenomenon of colors brought me to this; isn’t it… #ourCOG – ourcog says:

March 5, 2021 at 12:00 pm

[…] The phenomenon of colors brought me to this; isn’t it… […]

The phenomenon of colors brought me to this; isn’t it…

Comments

Discussion

3 comments

Related Posts

Winterfest Payments

Raeford Carrol Wiggins, Middlesex, NC