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of an eye, and use my best arithmetic to estimate the whole number. 110
More than 3,000 lenses means that the animal received more
than 3,000 images. This clearly shows the degree of the complexity
in the eye and brain structure of a creature that lived 530 million
years ago.
This flawless structure cannot have come into existence
through evolution, as is set out by David Raup, a professor of geol-
ogy from Harvard, Rochester and Chicago universities:
Thus the trilobites 450 million years ago used an optimal design
which would require a well trained and imaginative optical engineer
to develop today—or one who was familiar with the seventeenth-cen-
tury optical literature. 111

The Superior Complexity in Phacops Trilobites
Trilobites of the genus Phacops have a large number of lenses.
Rather than being hexagonal, the shape of these lenses is more rem-
iniscent of a marble’s. If you gaze through a clear marble, you per-
ceive an indistinct image that is reversed and blurred, showing ob-
jects to the sides elongated out of proportion. The reason for this is
that light passing through a spherical structure is refracted at differ-
ent angles. Therefore, it can be assumed that the problem of lack of
focus in the marble should also be expected to arise in Phacops’s eye.
But such is not the case!
In 1972, Kenneth M. Towe of Washington’s Smithsonian
Institution showed just how efficient the Phacops eye actually was.
Towe managed to obtain an image from inside the trilobite’s lenses
and reflect it onto photographic paper. Contrary to his expectations,
he encountered an exceedingly sharp image. It was as if the laws of
physics no longer applied here.
The truth was only realized several years later. The trilobite eye

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