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Minute Black Scavanger

Fly (Scatopsidae)

Period: Oligocene

Age: 25 million years
Region: Dominican Republic

The way that the compound eye of a 25-million-year-old
minute black scavenger fly preserved in amber has sur-

vived completely undamaged is literally a miracle. The
presence of thousands of lenses in the eye and a brain
system capable of interpreting what it sees reveals an
immaculate creation. Life forms with such eyes, whose
perfect arrangement make them marvels of engineering,
have been around for 390 million years. That same
complex compound eye structure can be seen in tri-

lobites that lived in the Cambrian Period, 530 mil-
lion years ago. The eye, an exceedingly complex
organ, is one of the subjects that evolutionists are
most reluctant to discuss and that demolishes
their theories.

The way that all these lenses combine their ima-
ges into one single image shows the sublime na-
ture of Allah’s creative artistry. For a scavenger fly
that lived millions of years ago to possess such a
complex organ shows that Allah created it with a

wondrous artistry.

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