Queries Regarding Ears Hearing

The human ear is an auditory gate that provides an incredible assortment of long-term memories. Through the ear the sound of music is captured and then recalled throughout the life. The ear will allow the voice of a loved one to move people to an emotional response. The ear can take in the sounds of nature as well as the sounds of threat and violence and the body will respond in manner specific to the audible information provided.

The ear is a way to take in external information, allow it to run through a mental process and respond using touch or voice. The ear is also instrumental in allowing the body to remain stable. The equilibrium of the body is established by the amount of pressure in the inner ear. The ear is uniquely shaped to capture sound and channel it from the outer ear through the ear duct. The middle ear converts the sound when it strikes the eardrum and conveys the sound to the inner ear and sends the information to the brain immediately.

The human ear is the most complex sensory organ in the whole human body. Vision and smell are extraordinary senses, but they do never match with complexity to the ear's process of turning minute waves of sound pressure from air molecules banging against the eardrum into the neural signals that get sent to the brain and interpreted as sound. The description above is a much stripped down version of the multiple processes that are necessary for hearing to take place. These are just a few facts about the ear, but very few people agree on these facts.

Charles Darwin said that, false facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. Charles Darwin pioneered the intense questioning of scientific data. In many ways his premise was admirable while his conclusions were based on insufficient data or a scientific sample too small to be simulated. Charles Darwin was right when he said; false facts are highly injurious to the progress of science. It is not sure even he understood how lasting his theory would become and how injurious it would become to the separation of false information that is widely believed versus fact that is dismissed because it doesn't square with conventional wisdom. In essence, the nonconformist sprit that caused Charles Darwin to question scientific data has ultimately resulted in a new status quo.

The design of the human ear is a great example of the unique nature of mankind. The belief that natural selection, time, chance and a good bit of luck is responsible for the ear seems a bit lacking in substance when people consider the incredible receptors that send auditory signals to the brain. The manner in which the senses of sight, taste, smell, touch and hearing work together to provide the mind with ample input to reason is something that evolutionary theory seems badly equipped to explain and the rest of the animal kingdom cannot duplicate. Maybe the ear looks designed because it actually is designed.

• John Palsson
• 30/11/2008, 8:59 PM
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