which are bundled together

English translation: Nerve wireS which are bundled together.

15:05 Mar 25, 2009

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Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / A religious book about the Creation/evolution debate

English term or phrase: which are bundled together

"… ninety-one membranes are more effective in stopping photons than ninety, ninety are more effective than eighty-nine, and so on back to one membrane, which is more effective than zero. This is the kind of thing I mean when I say that there is a smooth gradient up Mount Improbable. We would be dealing with an abrupt precipice if, say, any number of membranes above forty-five was very effective while any number below forty-five was totally ineffective. Neither common sense nor the evidence leads us to support any such discontinuity".
Yet a child can see the fallacy of this reasoning! Any number of pigment layers are useless without the connecting nerve ‘wire’ to carry current to the brain, ***which are bundled together*** in human eyes to form the optic nerve, and without a part of the brain to process such information. It is only the combination of all components which makes ‘sense’ of the integral whole—the entire machine.

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Selected answer:Nerve wireS which are bundled together.

Explanation:
I would think there is a "nerve wire" connecting each pigment layer to the brain and these are bundled together. Bundled altogether, they form the optic nerve.

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Make that "all together."

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Nerve wireS which are bundled together.

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the wires are bundled together

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the wires are bundled together

Explanation:
Not just because this makes sense here, but also because wires are one of things that can be grouped together into bundles, normally then tied to prevent them from separating again (also a bundle of letters, a bundle of sticks etc - other uses are more figurative, such as bundle of laughs).

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Nerve wireS which are bundled together.

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