Part Seven:  The Incredible Eye

Evolutionists claim the human eye (and all eyes for that matter) evolved from a light-sensitive spot on a tiny organism in the distant past. However, Charles Darwin himself admitted the idea of the eye evolving through natural selection was “absurd in the highest degree:” He wrote in The Origin of Species:

       To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. (The Origin of Species, 133)

Of course Darwin went on to try to justify his speculations. But this doesn’t change the fact that he recognized the absurdity of natural selection accounting for the evolution of the eye. Today, more than ever, there is even greater reason to reject natural selection as the origin and development of human and all other eyes. Consider the dragonfly. Dr. Werner Gitt explains:

Just imagine, each dragonfly eye consists of thousands of individual compound eyes. Each individual eye is equipped with half a million switching elements. Each of these functional elements is a hundred times smaller than the smallest switching element in your modern compute technology. Naturally, each individual eye has its own lens, or, more accurately, microlens.” (Creation Speaks for Itself; If Animals Could Talk, 75)

Like the other examples we’ve looked at in this blog series, for the alleged light-sensitive spot to develop into a fully functioning eye requires the interdependent parts that comprise it to have function at every stage of development. But this is impossible because each part could have no function until the light-sensitive spot itself was fully developed and operational. This is a classic case of an evolutionary “catch-22”: The individual parts of the light-sensitive spot could not have come into existence independent of natural selection, yet natural selection could not have begun until the individual parts of the eyespot are already functioning! Dr. Gitt adds this:

             Every individual part of the eye can only enable sight in the presence other parts at the same time and provided they are all working together correctly. If the eye were complete except for the lens, the whole organ would be useless. Evolution can neither deign nor plan ahead. Even existing products can’t be modified. (84)

So how did the human and other eyes come to be fully formed and functioning? You’re right—they were designed by a divine creator. ©