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DARWINISM REFUTED

The process of sight is actually a great deal more complicated than
the outline presented here would indicate. However, even this brief
overview is sufficient to demonstrate the extraordinary nature of the
system. There is such a complex, finely calculated system inside the eye
that it is nonsensical to claim that it could have come about by chance. The
system possesses a totally irreducibly complex structure. If even one of the
many molecular parts that enter into a chain reaction with each other were
missing, or did not possess a suitable structure, then the system would not
function at all.
It is clear that this system deals a heavy blow to Darwin's explanation
of life by "chance." Michael Behe makes this comment on the chemistry of
the eye and the theory of evolution:
Now that the black box of vision has been opened, it is no longer enough for
an evolutionary explanation of that power to consider only the anatomical
structures of whole eyes, as Darwin did in the nineteenth century (and as
popularizers of evolution continue to do today). Each of the anatomical steps
and structures that Darwin thought were so simple actually involves
staggeringly complicated biochemical processes that cannot be papered over
with rhetoric. 348
The irreducibly complex structure of the eye not only definitively
disproves the Darwinist theory, but also shows that life was created by the
All-Wise and All-Powerful Allah.

The Lobster Eye
There are many different types of eye in the living world. We are
accustomed to the camera-type eye found in vertebrates. This structure
works on the principle of the refraction of light, which falls onto the lens
and is focused on a point behind the lens inside the interior of the eye.
However, the eyes possessed by other creatures work by very
different methods. One example is the lobster. A lobster's eye works on a
principle of reflection, rather than that of refraction.
The most outstanding characteristic of the lobster eye is its surface,
which is composed of numerous squares. As shown in the picture, these
squares are positioned most precisely. As one astronomer commented in
Science: "The lobster is the most unrectangular animal I've ever seen. But
under the microscope a lobster's eye looks like perfect graph paper." 349

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