Wow, this is mind blowing precision and complexity! One critical vitamin-like eye molecule bears the chemistry-friendly name 11-cis-retinal. When this molecule is embedded in its partner protein, energy from an absorbed photon straightens its bend at the 11th carbon atom to complete vision’s first step. This altered shape initiates other factors that amplify the visual signal inside the eye cell. Yet, slightly different versions of the retinal molecule—those built to bend at the 9th, 10th, or any other carbon atom—demonstrate little or no optic activity.2 The Lord placed each atomic bond precisely where it needed to be. icr.org/article/8020/
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:52:42 +0000
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