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The human eye works by some 40
different parts functioning to-
gether. If just one of these is not
present, the eye will serve no pur-
pose. Each of these 40 parts has
its own individual complex struc-
ture. For instance, the retina, at
the back of the eye, is made up of
11 strata (left), each of which has
a different function. The theory of
evolution is unable to account for
the development of such a com-
plex organ.

cannot be used, they will both
be meaningless, and also per-
haps disappear with time. At
the same time, their develop-
ment all together requires the

coming together of unimagin-
ably small probabilities. 314

What Prof. Demirsoy re-
ally means by "unimaginably
small probabilities" is basically an "impossibility." It is clearly an
impossibility for the eye to be the product of chance. Darwin also
had a great difficulty in the face of this, and in a letter he even

admitted, "I remember well the time when the thought of the
eye made me cold all over." 315
In The Origin of Species, Darwin experienced a serious dif-
ficulty in the face of the eye's complexity. The only solution he
found was in pointing to the simpler eye structure found in

some creatures as the origin of the more complex eyes found
in others. He claimed that more complex eyes evolved from
simpler ones. However, this claim does not reflect the truth.
Paleontology shows that living things emerged in the world
with their exceedingly complex structures already intact. The
oldest known system of sight is the trilobite eye. This 530-mil-

lion-year-old compound eye structure, which we touched on in an
earlier chapter, is an "optical marvel" which worked with a double lens sys-
tem. This fact totally invalidates Darwin's assumption that complex eyes evolved from "primitive" eyes.

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