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The Miraculous Design in the Flight of Insects     21

































                                                            The eye of a dragonfly is
                                                            considered the world's most
                                                            complicated insect eye structure.
                                                            Each eye contains about thirty
                                                            thousand lenses. These eyes
                                                            occupy about half the area of the
                                                            head and provide the insect with a
                                                            very wide visual field because of
                                                            which it can almost keep an eye
                                                            on its back. The wings of a
                                                            dragonfly are of such a complex
                                                            design that they make any
                                                            conception of coincidence's
                                                            involvement in their origin
                                                            nonsense. The aerodynamic
                                                            membrane of the wings and each
                                                            pore on the membrane is a direct
                                                            result of plan and calculation.

           an uncertain change. It would be quite beyond reason to suggest that
           another mutation on top of this change could "coincidentally" add up to a
           wing. Furthermore, neither would the mutations to the body provide a
           whole wing to the insect nor would it do any good but decrease its mobility.
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