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OCTOPUS'S EYE, THE tions of the the o ry of ev o lu tion. This
in turn shows that there is noth ing
Evolutionists main tain that all
sci en tif ic about the ev o lu tion ist
liv ing things with sim i lar struc tures
claim based on sim i lar i ties.
and or gans share an ev o lu tion a ry re -
All ev o lu tion ists seek to do is to
la tion ship. One of the per fect ly clear
in ter pret the find ings they dis cov er
ex am ples that in val i date this claim,
against the terms of ev o lu tion dog -
known as ho mol o gy, is the oc to pus
ma, which they as sume to be true
eye. (See Homology.) According to
right from the out set. Yet the in ter -
ev o lu tion ists' im ag i nary tree of life,
pre ta tions they come up with are
oc to pi —be ing mol lusks—are one of
high ly in con sist ent. Because some -
the life forms fur thest re moved from
times or gans they are forced to re -
hu man be ings. Although the oc to -
gard as anal o gous re sem ble one an -
pus and man are very dif fer ent life
oth er so close ly, de spite their ex -
forms, be tween which no so called
traor di na ri ly com plex struc tures,
ev o lu tion a ry re la tion ship can ex ist,
that it is ut ter ly il log i cal to sug gest
their eyes have ex act ly the same
that such re sem blan ces came about
struc ture! This is a clear sign that
as the re sult of ran dom mu ta tions. If,
sim i lar struc tures do not con sti tute
as ev o lu tion ists claim, the oc to pus's
proof of ev o lu tion.
eye emerged as the re sult of chance,
Confronted by this sit u a tion, ev o -
then the ver te brate eye should have
lu tion ists say that these or gans are
emerged by re peat ing those ex act
not ho mol o gous (that is, de scend ed
same co in ci den ces.
from a com mon an ces tor) but rath er
The well-known ev o lu tion ist
anal o gous—sim i lar, de spite the ab -
Frank Salisbury writes:
sence of any ev o lu tion a ry re la tion -
ship. See Homologous Organs and Even some thing as com plex as the eye
has ap peared sev er al times; for ex am -
Analogous Organs.) In their view,
ple, in the squid, the ver te brates, and
for in stance, the hu man eye and the
the ar thro pods. It's bad enough ac -
oc to pus eye are anal o gous or gans.
count ing for the or i gin of such things
However, the ques tion of wheth -
once, but the thought of pro duc ing
er a par tic u lar or gan should be in -
them sev er al times ac cord ing to the
clud ed in the ho mol o gous or the
mod ern syn thet ic the o ry makes my
anal o gous cat e go ry is an swered 74
head swim.
sole ly ac cord ing to the pre con cep -
According to the the o ry of ev o lu -
Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar