Dawkins on the Human Eye: Reality Check, Please?

For those of you who can't get enough of Richard Dawkins interviewing "Darwinian medicine" advocate Randolph Nesse, there's a Part 2! Here, Dawkins presses Dr. Nesse for a better example of an unintelligently designed feature of the body than the one he gave in Part 1 (the human forearm). This time Dr. Nesse offers the human eye, observing that with its counterintuitive wiring that results in a (virtually unnoticeable) blind spot, "It's the perfect example of why the body is not designed."

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