Coyne is not an engineer. He’s sort of a glorified fruitfly farmer. He doesn’t have engineering insights and it shows. He’s also one of the most militant ideologues out there ( protesting the appointment of Francis Collins MD,PhD as head of NIH because Collins was a Christian).
Jerry Coyne argues the human eyes is poorly designed:
The human eye, though eminently functional, is imperfect—certainly not the sort of eye an
engineer would create from scratch
…
the nerves and blood vessels that attach to our photoreceptor cells are on the inside
rather than the outside of the eye, running over the surface of the retina.
…
The whole system is like a car in which all the wires to the dashboard hang inside the driver’s compartment.
The latest from physics.org
(Phys.org) —Having the photoreceptors at the back of the retina is not a design constraint, it is a design feature. The idea that the vertebrate eye, like a traditional front-illuminated camera, might have been improved somehow if it had only been able to orient its wiring behind the photoreceptor layer, like a cephalopod, is folly.
In light of physicist’s skewering of Jerry Coyne, I reminded of the one thing he said:
In Science’s pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics.
Jerry Coyne
HT JoeCoder at reddit/r/creation