Page 215 - A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propagand‪a

HARUN YAHYA

Trilobites were among the first
known animals with efficient eyes.
These had many crystal lenses fixed at
different angles to register movement and
light from different directions. This 530-million-
year-old compound eye structure is an "optical mar-
vel" which worked with a double lens system. This
fact totally invalidates Darwinism's assumption that
complex eyes evolved from "primitive" eyes.

The trilobite, an arthropod from the Cambrian Period, has an
eye whose design gives Darwinism a particularly serious blow. The
compound eye design in these creatures is some 530 million years
old, and just as perfect as visual systems from our own time. Some
modern insects, such as bees and dragonflies, possess a very simi-
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lar system. The fact that a system which functions flawlessly in our
own time also existed in a nearly identical form 530 million years
ago totally undermines the Darwinist hypothesis of evolution from
the simple to the complex.
Moreover, the complex design in the eye also includes the fea-
ture of irreducibility. In order for the lens and the light-sensitive
cells, as well as great many other organs, to do their jobs success-
fully, they need to exist in that precise form at the very same mo-
ment. According to evolution's own logic the eye will not work if
just one of these elements is missing, and will thus atrophy and dis-
appear. In short, the claims of Darwinism are in contradiction with

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