Let’s take a quick look at the creatures of nature and see the intelligence and design that they display. Think for a moment of the fish that inhabit the oceans. They are constantly subject to attack from their enemies from above—like the gulls that swoop down to make their meals off marine life. Do you know that fish have specially constructed eyeballs enabling them to look almost instantly in any and all directions? They see behind, below, above and on the sides.
Furthermore, fish eyes are designed to take into account the refraction of light. Yes, fish can see 30 percent farther than other visual instruments because Hashem designed the eyeball of the fish to take into consideration the refraction of light. We tend to think it’s a wonderful accomplishment when the oculist manufactures special goggles for divers that compensate for refraction in the water, yet Hashem did it for fish long before.
In the waters of Malaya lives a fish with bifocal lenses built right in its eyes. This little sardine-sized fish is prized for food by the seagulls especially. They are constantly swooping down to gobble up this little fish if they can. So the little fish has to watch carefully for this approaching danger. It must have good distance vision, but since it feeds on the microscopic larvae that abound in the water, it must have very good “near vision” as well. So what did Hashem do? Hashem created a little membrane that comes halfway up on its eyes, giving it bifocal vision? That little fish can look up and see the gulls coming or look down and see those nearby bits of life that it can feed on!
We think it wonderful that the skilled optometrist and oculist can perfect glasses permitting us to see near and far away, yet here is a fish that has been created that way by Hashem from the very beginning.