{"id":1062956,"date":"2011-02-20T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/steps-toward-a-bionic-eye\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:25:54","slug":"steps-toward-a-bionic-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/gene-therapy\/steps-toward-a-bionic-eye.php","title":{"rendered":"Steps toward a Bionic Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The human eye is a biological marvel. Charles Darwin considered it one of the biggest challenges to his theory of evolution, famously  writing : that &ldquo;To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.&rdquo; Of course he did go on to explain how natural selection could account for the eye, but we can see why he wrote these words under the heading of &ldquo;Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication.&rdquo;   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm\">[More]<\/a><\/p><p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:967d6ecae14ad05b0dfa9fd646306f3d:xl2q7XQUWDBTXHaze4vn1P2MUoF8fOZlQWE94IkmyHnUt%2BeU0tFEk6df9jLYdtWI3snC0h9ihCjCnA%3D%3D\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Add to digg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5380a_digg.gif\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:4821bac0be4eea1d380461ba0964a3be:NyYDbKa5162wajqZROSP8P8c59eNd3iRzzy%2Bz73y0a%2BDeL%2FK4i%2F3DAG0iul8Iapw9GxJOoahf1ckSSo%3D\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Add to StumbleUpon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49b9f_stumbleit.gif\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:561ff12e6e1405b26692d0746632473e:%2BfjbQup5Ibon%2FPOl78RxYSAINl%2BYswDraqVyJyFlfSh7%2FKx3RoQUCJ8CwtMD77kqk9yO8G3HAyVCnQ%3D%3D\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Add to Reddit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49b9f_reddit.png\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:8eff0ea2cc88667d0e5566c19d6b5aec:VYkFjR%2B6FCWy7LXSPaZhZnhtNf%2FBqqoXWUkOIHLUajJxU74atXeBFtXETQcgIuFVzJ10Yr%2BiOW2LCIA%3D\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Add to Facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49b9f_facebook.gif\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:8673c0ff49f524d9cd5cd7206ba8e260:TDqxz961n5xJ85X5vtmGRd25%2FIN2TlTpRQ9g2SDhgGjS1YYdYmKYSnP8wScenmWdbvQWNFchqT0Wiw%3D%3D\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Add to del.icio.us\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49b9f_delicious.gif\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:bb3f4e2388f271ff11ced3aee4c6e7fc:5sarGbjy2Honal7FTmlXZ1z04u4xm4PjLXyNKtPKFjEBluIxsqWEQUdhwrtesnavQBYRPy74H%2F9QXA%3D%3D\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Email this Article\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49b9f_emailthis.png\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=0af826744cb8a4958de7b28e94eb52dc&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0381c_img.phdo?s=0af826744cb8a4958de7b28e94eb52dc&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0381c_pixel?code=News&amp;partnerID=167&amp;key=segment\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0381c_p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.23518.rss.News.10146,cat.News.rss\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human eye is a biological marvel. Charles Darwin considered it one of the biggest challenges to his theory of evolution, famously writing : that &ldquo;To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/gene-therapy\/steps-toward-a-bionic-eye.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gene-therapy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}