Sight matters

Ok, why is it that after fifty bazillion-something years of evolution, natural selection and survival of the fittest a member of a highly-adapted species such as Homo Sapiens cannot walk 20 feet in the darkness without stubbing his toe or suffering some other life-threatening accident, all that on the way to the bathroom? Why is is that cats, on the other hand, are capable of running in the same darkness-covered house at nearly supersonic speeds, when the spirit moves them? Would it not be convenient for all species to be able to see in the dark as well as cats do?

It may be suggested that possessing such valuable qualities as night vision inevitably causes one to experience poor sight in more favorable conditions. A desirable trait requires making some compromises. In my opinion, this is very weak reasoning. Who is to say that the same evolutionary process that supposedly granted sight to a great number of species on this Earth was so flawed that it could not make some adjustments along the way, in order to provide us all with the ability to see in the dark at least as well as felines do?

Given the Intelligent Design perspective, it would appear that, just as a character in a good story, every creature has its strengths and its weaknesses, and this allows the entire world to function. To put it bluntly, your shortcomings allow others to feast on you. But how come, you might ask, the great Designer failed to equip the crown and glory of creation (that'd be us) with something so crucial and yet attainable as night vision?

According the the Bible, the creation of light was the first act of God during the creation of the Universe. The distinction betwenn light and darkness is fundamental to the understanding of this world, both in terms of physics and ethics. Is is possible that our poor night vision is actually an instrument of discerning between right and wrong?