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emerge. Darwin believed that
variations emerged at random. If
that were so, would it not be a
mysterious puzzle how the great
number of variations necessary
for sight all came together and
cooperated at the same time in
various different parts of the or-
ganism's body? ... The fact is that
a string of complementary
changes—all of which must
work together—are necessary
for sight ... Some molluscs' eyes
have retina, cornea, and a lens
just like ours. How can we account for this construction in two
species on such very different evolutionary levels solely in terms of
natural selection? … It is a matter for debate whether Darwinists
can supply a satisfactory answer to that question… 14
Another point which makes that question even more of a
dilemma for evolutionists is the eye of the trilobite, one of those crea-
tures which suddenly emerged during the Cambrian explosion. This

530-million-year-old compound eye structure is an "optical marvel"
which functions with a double lens system, and is the oldest known
eye. This totally undermines the evolutionists' claim that "complex
eyes evolved from primitive eyes."
This question poses such a severe problem for the theory of evo-
lution that the more detailed the analysis, the more intractible the
problem becomes. One important "detail" that needs to be examined
at this point is the tale of the "cell becoming sensitive to light." What
kind of design does this structure—which Darwin and other evolu-

tionists have glossed over by saying, "sight may have begun by a sin-
gle cell becoming light-sensitive"—actually have?

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