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Harun Yahya

When these fish are together, a most fascinating picture emerges. Hundreds of anab-
leps (four-eyed fish) waiting in the tidal region at the mouth of the Surinam River look
out of the water all at the same moment. When the waters retract, the fish will throw
themselves onto the food-rich mud. When they perceive approaching danger, such
as a low-flying bird or large fish-eating animal, they immediately retreat back into
deeper water.

Of course not. Complex structures such as eyes depend on a great
many inter-related components working together. The absence of or a
defect in any one will mean the eye serves no purpose at all. Systems
like this are known as "irreducibly complex." For example, the human
eye cannot be reduced to any simpler form, since without every sin-
gle one of its features, it can serve no function at all. This is further
proof that the eye couldn't have "evolved" in stages over the course of
time.
As Darwin himself admitted, "If it could be demonstrated that any
complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed

by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would ab-
solutely break down." This single example undermines the very
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foundations of his theory of evolution.
Darwin was aware that he faced a grave dilemma with regard to
the "evolution of the eye." Indeed, he confessed this in the chapter of

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