Page 741 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

The lobster eye is composed of numerous
squares. These well-arranged squares are
in fact the ends of tiny square tubes. The
reflector sides of each one of these square tubes are
units like mirrors that reflect the incoming light.
This reflected light is focused onto the
retina flawlessly. The sides of the tubes in-
side the eye are lodged at such perfect an-
gles that they all focus onto a single point.

retina

eycomb. At first glance, the honeycomb
appears to be made up of hexagons, al-
though these are actually the front faces of
hexagonal prisms. In the lobster's eye, there
are the squares in place of hexagons.

Even more intriguing is that the sides of each one of
these square tubes are like mirrors that reflect the incoming light. This reflected light is focused onto the
retina flawlessly. The sides of the tubes inside the eye are lodged at such perfect angles that they all focus
onto a single point.
The extraordinary nature of this system is quite indisputable. All of these perfect square tubes have a

layer that works just like a mirror. Furthermore, each one of these cells is sited by means of precise geomet-
rical alignments, so that they all focus the light at a single point.
Michael Land, a scientist and researcher at the University of Sussex in England, was the first to examine
the lobster eye structure in detail. Land stated that the eye had a most surprising structure. 321
It is obvious that the lobster eye presents a great difficulty for the theory of evolution. Most importantly,
it exemplifies the concept of "irreducible complexity." If even one of its features—such as the facets of the

eye, which are perfect squares, the mirrored sides of each unit, or the retina layer at the back—were elimi-
nated, the eye could never function. Therefore, it is impossible to maintain that the eye evolved step-by-step.
It is scientifically unjustifiable to argue that such a perfect structure as this could have come about haphaz-
ardly. It is quite clear that the lobster eye was created by God as a miraculous system.
One can find further traits in the lobster's eye that nullify the assertions of evolutionists. An interesting

fact emerges when one looks at creatures with similar eye structures. The reflecting eye, of which the lob-
ster's eye is one example, is found in only one group of crustaceans, the so-called long-bodied decapods.
This family includes the lobsters, the prawns and shrimp.
The other members of the Crustacea class display "the refracting type eye structure," which works on
completely different principles from those of the reflecting type. Here, the eye is made up of hundreds of
cells like a honeycomb. Unlike the square cells in a lobster eye, these cells are either hexagonal or round.

Furthermore, instead of reflecting light, small lenses in the cells refract the light onto the focus on the retina.
The majority of crustaceans have the refracting eye structure. According to evolutionist assumptions, all
the creatures within the class Crustacea should have evolved from the same ancestor. Therefore, evolutionists
claim that reflecting mirrored eye evolved from a refracting eye.

However, such reasoning is impossible, because both eye structures function perfectly within their own

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