By Eli Mendez-Garcia –
His father was a doctor and his mother taught in medical school, but still they lived on only $30 a month in Hangzhou, China under communism. Only by working extremely hard, Ming Wang managed to come to American and become a laser eye doctor.
As his upbringing was Marxist, Ming Wang was an atheist. He found Christ when he marveled over the complexity of the eye — specifically how cells came together in the womb to coordinate with the brain perfectly to give sight in a 1-month old baby.
“It quickly became clear to me with my scientific background that you know PhD laser physics that it is just impossible that the atheist worldview would hold,” Dr. Ming says. “How could all these trillions of trillions of cells combine themselves to form a functional eye in a short span of you know nine months, 10 months during during the pregnancy?”
Charles Darwin, whose origin of life excluded God as creator, said he shuddered when he considered the complexity of the eye. Evolution couldn’t account for it.
Ming Wang was born into studious family. His father was a doctor, and his mother taught in the medical school. But since communism doesn’t reward people for their work, they lived in poverty. They had no bathroom, and a single 8W bulb illuminated the room.
Dad, who liked to study, stacked two chairs up to get close enough to the light to be able to see the pages he was reading.
It was during the “Cultural Revolution,” in which the CCP shut down universities, punished intellectuals with hard labor. Ming was just about to go into high school. The only way to dodge the labor camps was for him to be incorporated into Chinese music and dance troupe, so he learned the erhu.
When the Cultural Revolution was ended in 1976, Ming returned to his studies, jumping straight to 12th grade and qualifying for university.
He applied for and was admitted to the University of Maryland to study classical physics, quantum mechanics and laser physics. He supported himself through college and got a PhD in laser physics and did post-doctoral studies at MIT.
In 1987 at age 26, he entered medical school at Harvard University where he became an MD.
“It was in the study of medicine of the human eye that the seed was started of eventually becoming a Christian,” he says. “In our human brain, half of the brain neurons are involved in vision. Because so much neurons involved in the vision signal-capturing and processing interpretation, it quickly became clear to me that the atheist worldview is just impossible.
“How could all these trillions of trillions of cells combine themselves to form a functional eye in a short span of nine months during the pregnancy for a child?” he adds. “So many things can go wrong that most of us should be born blind, yet most of us are born with sight.”
Because he is a Christian, Ming performs laser eye surgery for free to orphans. He has heled patients from over 40 U.S. states and 55 countries. He lives in Nashville, TN. He has played the erhu with Dolly Parton.
He pressed his professor about this troubling area in science. In order to answer, his professor invited him to lunch.
“What’s the difference between a car and the human eye?” his professor asked.
“The human eye is a lot more complicated,” Ming responded.
“Can you imagine a random piece of metal on the street assemble itself into a car?” the prof said.
“No way,” Ming replied.
“Right there he basically just open a window in my life making me realize that the reason the human eye is so complicated but yet can form nearly so perfect nearly every time is because it is it is not formed out of randomness.”
The theory of evolution asserts that creation came about naturally through randomness.
As he processed the mind-blowing thought, Ming realized there had to be a Creator.
He studied different religions but fell into a group of scientists who were Christian and was persuaded that the Creator is Jesus.
Ming is a unique and imminent specialist, both a laser eye surgeon who has a PhD on lasers. As he progressed in his career, he studied how to heal eyes using the placenta. This, he attributes to God because as a Christian he didn’t want to study on stem cells from abortions like his colleagues (stem cells don’t scar like adult cells do). So he studied the placenta for two decades
His amniotic membrane contact lens treat conditions, such as dry eye syndrome and corneal scarring by reducing inflammation and promoting tissue regeneration. He holds the patent. But instead of making millions off it, he made it internationally free for the good of humanity, because he is a Christian.
Ming has performed over 55,000 eye procedures throughout his career, including more than 4,000 on other doctors. He is recognized as a pioneer in bladeless, all-laser LASIK and SMILE (small incision lenticular extraction) surgeries, with exceptionally high success rates.
Dr. Wang is the founding director of the Wang Vision Institute and a Clinical Professor at Meharry Medical College. He has published over 100 papers, including one in the prestigious journal Nature, and has authored or co-authored ten ophthalmic textbooks.
He holds multiple U.S. patents for his inventions, including tan adaptive infrared retinoscopic device for detecting ocular aberrations. He was also the first surgeon to perform laser-assisted artificial cornea implantation.
