You mean like this:
“The involvement of Pax6 and six1 and six3 genes, which encode highly conserved transcription factors, in the genetic control of eye development in organisms ranging from planarians to humans argues strongly for a monophyletic origin of the eye.
Because transcription factors can control the expression of any target gene provided it contains the appropriate gene regulatory elements, the conservation of the genetic control of eye development by Pax6 among all bilaterian animals is not due to functional constraints but a consequence of its evolutionary history.
The prototypic eyes postulated by Darwin to consist of two cells only, a photoreceptor and a pigment cell, were accidentally controlled by Pax6 and the subsequent evolution of the various eye types occurred by building onto this original genetic program. A hypothesis of intercalary evolution is proposed that assumes that the eye morphogenetic pathway is progressively modified by intercalation of genes between the master control genes on the top of the hierarchy and the structural genes like rhodopsin at the bottom.
The recruitment of novel genes into the eye morphogenetic pathway can be due to at least two different genetic mechanisms, gene duplication and enhancer fusion.In tracing back the evolution of eyes beyond bilaterians, we find highly developed eyes in some box-jellyfish as well as in some Hydrozoans. In Hydrozoans the same orthologous six genes (six1 and six3) are required for eye regeneration as in planarians, and in the box jellyfish Tripedalia a pax B gene, which may be a precursor of Pax6, was found to be expressed in the eyes.”
New perspectives on eye development and the evolution of eyes and photoreceptors. - PubMed - NCBI
You didn’t even read it, did you?
No, it means that given the available evidence, it is the
most likely explanation.
See above for your assertion about genetic pathways.
I don’t understand your question.
Being able to see anything at all, even if it’s only light, could be more advantageous than not being able to see anything at all. Is that what you’re asking?
I don’t know what an “evo link” is. But the links I have provided for you do in fact, contain evidence. As I think I just demonstrated above.
This is false. As demonstrated above.
I will point out quote mines no matter what the discussion. I don’t limit it to evolutionary quotations. I complain about quote mining when I see it because it’s dishonest. As I said. Your assertion is incorrect.
The only thing quote mines reveal is the dishonesty of the quote miner.
So you are stating that it is dishonest to present evidence to back up one’s claims, but it is not dishonest to present partial quotations removed from their context in order to make them appear to say something that they don’t actually say?
That’s great. You should care about what YOU do and how you present your arguments, which was my point.