Page 279 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

The Creation of the Human Eye
The human eye is a very complex system consisting of the delicate
conjunction of some 40 separate components. Let us consider just one of
these components: for example, the lens. We do not usually realize it, but
the thing that enables us to see things clearly is the constant automatic
focusing of the lens. If you wish, you can carry out a small experiment on
this subject: Hold your index finger up in the air. Then look at the tip of
your finger, then at the wall behind it. Every time you look from your
finger to the wall you will feel an adjustment.
This adjustment is made by small muscles around the lens. Every
time we look at something, these muscles go into action and enable us to
see what we are looking at clearly by changing the thickness of the lens
and turning it at the right angle to the light. The lens carries out this
adjustment every second of our lives, and makes no mistakes.
Photographers make the same adjustments in their cameras by hand, and
sometimes have to struggle for quite some time to get the right focus.
Within the last 10 to 15 years, modern technology has produced cameras
which focus automatically, but no camera can focus as quickly and as well
as the eye.
For an eye to be able to see, the 40 or so basic components which
make it up need to be present at the same time and work together
perfectly. The lens is only one of these. If all the other components, such as
the cornea, iris, pupil, retina, and eye muscles, are all present and
functioning properly, but just the eyelid is missing, then the eye will
shortly incur serious damage and cease to carry out its function. In the
same way, if all the subsystems exist but tear production ceases, then the
eye will dry up and go blind within a few hours.
The theory of evolution's claim of "reducibility" loses all meaning in
the face of the complex structure of the eye. The reason is that, in order for
the eye to function, all its parts need to be present at the same time. It is
impossible, of course, for the mechanisms of natural selection and
mutation to give rise to the eye's dozens of different subsystems when
they can confer no advantage right up until the last stage. Professor Ali
Demirsoy accepts the truth of this in these words:
It is rather hard to reply to a third objection. How was it possible for a
complicated organ to come about suddenly even though it brought benefits

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