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ONCE, THERE WAS THE MYTH OF FAULTY

CHARACTERISTICS

xford University zoology professor Richard Dawkins is one of the well-known evolutionists in the
world today. He is known not by his work on zoology, but by his avid championing of Darwinism
O and atheism.
In 1986, he published his book entitled The Blind Watchmaker, in which he tried to persuade readers that

living creatures' complex characteristics were the result of natural selection. His attempts were mostly
based on speculation, faulty comparisons and wrong calculations that various scientists and writers have
since exposed in detail. 66
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 inverted retina in the
vertebrate eyes, including the human eye.
An inverted retina in the vertebrate eye means that photoreceptors are located in the eye backwards,

not frontwards where the light en-
ters. The sensory ends of these
light-perceiving cells face the
back, and the retinal nerves

coming out from them
In his 1986 book
form a layer between "The Blind
light and the cells. Watchmaker," athe-
ist Richard Dawkins
These nerves converge referred to the al-

to a certain point on the leged "faulty char-
acteristics" in
retina where they exit
nature. It later
the eye. Because there emerged that his ar-
gument stemmed
are no photoreceptors
from ignorance.
at this point, it is the
eye's "blind spot,"
where there is no vi-
sion.

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 argu-

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