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The eye is made up around 40 essential components in the absence of any one of
which the eye will fail to see at all. In order, therefore, for an eye to be able to
see, it needs to form simultaneously with all these 40 organelles that make vision
possible. This can come about only through creation.

Darwin himself was one of the first to realize this predicament, and
admitted that even thinking about the eye and other complex organs gave
him a "cold shudder":
Charles Darwin:

The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder. 343
I remember well the time when the thought of the eye made me cold all
over, but I have got over this stage of the complaint, and now small tri-
fling particulars of structure often make me very uncomfortable. The
sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me
sick. 344
To recur to the eye. I really think it would have been dishonest, not to
have faced the difficulty. 345
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could
not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifica-
tions, my theory would absolutely break down. 346