Page 281 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

of sight is the trilobite eye. This 530-million-year-old compound eye
structure, which we touched on in an earlier chapter, is an "optical marvel"
which worked with a double lens system. This fact totally invalidates
Darwin's assumption that complex eyes evolved from "primitive" eyes.

The Irreducible Structure of the "Primitive" Eye

It remains to be said that the organs described by Darwin as
"primitive" eyes actually possess a complex and irreducible structure that
can never be explained by chance. Even in its simplest form, for seeing to
happen, some of a creature's cells need to become light-sensitive—that is,
they need to possess the ability to transduce this sensitivity to light into
electrical signals; a nerve network from these cells to the brain needs to
emerge; and a visual center in the brain to evaluate the information has to
be formed. It is senseless to propose that all of these things came about by
chance, at the same time, and in the same living thing. In his book Evrim
Kurami ve Bagnazlik (The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry), which he
wrote to defend the theory of evolution, the evolutionist writer Cemal
Yildirim admits this fact in this way:
A large number of mechanisms need to work together for sight: As well as
the eye and the mechanisms inside it, we can mention the links between
special centers in the brain and the eye. How did this complex system-
creation come about? According to biologists, the first step in the emergence
of the eye during the evolutionary process was taken with the appearance of
a small, light-sensitive area on the skin of some primitive living things. But
what advantage could such a minute development on its own confer on a
living thing in natural selection? As well as this, there needs to be a visual
center formed in the brain and a nerve system linked to it. As long as these
rather complicated mechanisms are not linked to one another, then we
cannot expect what we call "sight" to emerge. Darwin believed that
variations emerged by chance. If that were the case, would not the
appearance of all the many variations that sight requires in various places in
the organism at the same time and their working together turn into a
mystical puzzle?… However, a number of complementary changes working
together in harmony and cooperation are needed for sight… Some molluscs'
eyes have retina, cornea, and a lens of cellulose tissue just like ours. Now,
how can we explain the evolutionary processes of these two very different

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