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The visual field

(Figure 2.7). The image that every eye perceives is split down the middle (indi-
cated above in black and green on the retina). Signals from the eyes come down
different paths, but meet and merge at the visual center.
As seen in the diagram above, the process of decoding and reassembling these
images requires geometric precision and countless calculations. Even more
amazingly, the brain accurately compiles the broken-down picture with no dis-
continuity or slip, just like the original. It is not possible for such a flawless struc-
ture, of whose workings we're completely unaware, to have developed on its own,
coincidentally. The entire system has to be present as a whole; it cannot develop
bit by bit. It came to be from nothing, in the mother's womb. Put another way, the
principle of gradual development, one which forms the basis of the evolution the-
ory, is again rendered erroneous.
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