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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

One of Dawkins' arguments was that of
"faulty" or "bad" characteristics in living things. He stated
that some structures in living creatures were useless and that,

therefore, they were faulty, trying to do away with the fact that a
flawless creation reigns. The foremost example he gave was the in-
verted retina in the vertebrate eyes, including the human eye.
An inverted retina in the vertebrate eye means that photore-
ceptors are located in the eye backwards, not frontwards where
the light enters. The sensory ends of these light-perceiving cells
face the back, and the retinal nerves coming out from them form a

layer between light and the cells. These nerves converge to a cer-

In his 1986 book "The Blind
Watchmaker," atheist Richard
Dawkins referred to the alleged
"faulty characteristics" in nature.
It later emerged that his argument
stemmed from ignorance.

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