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sev er al pho to graphs of the eye from the Chicago uni ver si ties,
dif fer ent an gles and then made enor - says: "the tri lo bites
mous prints mag ni fied large enough to 450 mil lion years
see in di vid u al len ses. I start ed count - ago used an op ti -
ing as one might "one, two, three,
mal design
four" . . . and so on to a hun dred or
which would re -
two. The troub le was that you had on -
quire a well
ly to look away for an in stant, or
trained and im ag i na -
sneeze, to for get ex act ly where you
tive op ti cal en gi neer to
were, so it was back again to "one, two,
de vel op to day." 262
three." 261
This ex traor di na ri ly com plex
More than 3,000 len ses means the
struc ture in tri lo bites is by it self suf -
an i mal re ceived more than 3,000 im a -
fi cient to in val i date Darwinism. No
ges. This clear ly shows the scale of the
com pa ra ble com plex crea ture ex ist -
com plex i ty in the eye and brain struc -
ed in ear li er ge o log i cal pe ri ods,
ture of a crea ture that lived 530 mil -
which shows that tri lo bites emerged
lion years ago, and dis plays a flaw less
with no ev o lu tion a ry sta ges be hind
struc ture that can not have come in to
them.
ex is tence through ev o lu tion.
This ex traor di na ry state of af fairs
David Raup, a pro fes sor of ge ol o -
in the Cambrian pe ri od was more or
gy from Harvard, Rochester and

The above fos sils are tri lo bites, some of the high ly com plex in ver te brates that ap peared
sud den ly in the Cambrian Period, some 500 mil lion years ago. The most sig nif i cant fea ture
in tri lo bites, and one that rep re sents a ma jor quan da ry for ev o lu tion ists, is their com pound
eyes. These eyes, which are high ly ad vanced and com plex, pos sess a mul ti-cell sys tem.
This sys tem is iden ti cal to that found in mod ern spi ders, bees, flies and oth er crea tures.
The fact that such a com plex struc ture emerged ab rupt ly in crea tures liv ing 500 mil lion
years ago de mol ish es ev o lu tion ist claims based on the idea of co in ci dence.

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