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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

tain point on the retina where they exit the eye.
Because there are no photoreceptors at this point, it is
the eye's "blind spot," where there is no vision.

Darwinists have adopted this inversion and the blind
point as flaws; that the eye came to be through natural selection
and that such oddities are to be expected. As said earlier, Richard
Dawkins is the well-known proponent of this argument. In The
Blind Watchmaker he writes:
Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would
point towards the light, with their wires leading backwards to-
wards the brain. He would laugh at any suggestion that the photo-
cells might point away from the light, with their wires departing on
the side nearest the light. Yet this is exactly what happens in all ver-
tebrate eyes. 67
However, Dawkins and those who accept what he says are
wrong because of Dawkins's ignorance of the eye's anatomy and

physiology.
A scientist who gives a detailed account of this matter is mol-
ecular biologist Michael Denton of the University of Otago who is
also one of the most prominent critics of Darwinism today. In "The
Inverted Retina: Maladaption or Pre-adaptation?," published in
Origins and Design magazine, he explains how the inverted retina
that Dawkins presented as faulty is actually created in the most ef-
ficient manner possible for the vertebrate eye:

. . . consideration of the very high energy demands of the photore-
ceptor cells in the vertebrate retina suggests that rather than
being a challenge to teleology, the curious inverted design of
the vertebrate retina may in fact represent a unique so-
lution to the problem of providing the highly ac-

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