[extropy-chat] why the vertebrate eye might not be suboptimal after all

[Damien Broderick]

Evbio tells us that design mistakes can get frozen in; a standard 
instance is the vertebrate eye, where the light detectors are facing 
the wrong way. D'oh! But wait, maybe there's more to this than meets 
the eye (even if this comes from the "intelligent design" bozos):

http://www.arn.org/docs/odesign/od171/retina171.htm

Damien Broderick