How did the eye with all its amazing capabilities come to being? The Bible tells us it was created and formed by God (Psalm 94:9). The wisdom of Solomon says, "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them" (Proverbs 20:12).

Many disagree with this answer, and try to credit the eye's formation to processes called evolution. But Charles Darwin himself shuddered at the thought that evolutionary processes had to explain human vision. He wrote, "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" (The Origin of Species).

Sylvia Baker, M.Sc., writes a very enlightening personal testimony in her book Bone of Contention, telling how it was during her studies about the evolution of the eye at the University of Sussex that she realized it was "impossible to describe how the eye could have evolved…It then became clear to me that the theory of evolution is unscientific and that mutation theory is hopelessly inadequate. It could not possibly account for the development of even the simplest organism, much less such wonders as the vertebrate eye."

Tom Wagner, in Creation Magazine, gives a fascinating discovery of modern ophthalmology since Darwin's day. "There are three almost imperceptibly tiny eye movements, referred to as tremors, drifts and saccades, caused by minute contractions in the six muscles attached to the outside of each of your eyes. Every fraction of a second they very slightly shift the position of your eyeball, automatically, without conscious effort on your part, making sight as you know it possible.

"Tremors—the tiniest and probably the most intriguing of these movements, continuously and rapidly wobble your eyeball about its center in a circular fashion. They cause the cornea and retina (front and back) of your eyes to move in circles with incredibly minute diameters of about .00004 inch.

"An even more amazing characteristic of tremors is that the seemingly tireless muscles that produce them wobble your eye 30 to 70 times each second. On average, each of your eyes completes one million of these tiny circular motions in five-and-a-half hours. The number of tremors taking place in a lifetime is astronomical.

"Even though tremors are not large enough to be visible without great magnification, you could not see properly without them. Continued change in the light projected on each retinal cell in your eyes is crucial for constant vision. Hence the need for tremors that God has made to supply the retina with a slightly shifting picture many times each second.

"During drift movements, the eye drifts relatively slowly and smoothly off the target where you are looking until it reaches an angle equal to about 12 times the size of a tremor. At this time, the eye automatically jerks, via a 'saccade,' back to its original position. Saccades, which happen up to several times a second, are very quick, jerk-type movements that are used to correct for whatever drifts are occurring. So, your eyes are indeed moving all the time, evidence of the Creator's handiwork in our eyes and vision."