Complex Molecules and Organs 4

b. Many leading scientists have commented on the staggering complexity
of the human eye. What some do not appreciate is how many diverse
types of eyes there are, each of which adds to the problem for
evolution.

 One of the strangest is a multiple-lensed, compound eye found in
fossilized worms! [See Donald G. Mikulic et al., “A Silurian Soft-
Bodied Biota,” Science, Vol. 228, 10 May 1985, pp. 715–717.]

 Another type of eye belonged to some trilobites, a thumb-size,
extinct, sea-bottom creature. Evolutionists claim that they were very
early forms of life. Trilobite eyes had compound lenses, sophisticated
designs for eliminating image distortion (spherical aberration). Only
the best cameras and telescopes contain compound lenses. Some
trilobite eyes contained 280 lenses, allowing vision in all
directions, day and night. [See Richard Fortey and Brian Chatterton,
“A Devonian Trilobite with an Eyeshade,” Science, Vol. 301, 19
September 2003, p. 1689.] Trilobite eyes “represent an all-time feat
of function optimization.” [Riccardo Levi-Setti, Trilobites, 2nd
edition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 29–74.]
Shawver described trilobite eyes as having “the most sophisticated eye
lenses ever produced by nature.”  [Lisa J. Shawver, “Trilobite Eyes:
An Impressive Feat of Early Evolution,” Science News, Vol. 105, 2
February 1974, p. 72.] Gould admitted that “The eyes of early
trilobites, for example, have never been exceeded for complexity or
acuity by later arthropods. ... I regard the failure to find a clear
‘vector of progress’ in life’s history as the most puzzling fact of
the fossil record.”  [Stephen Jay Gould, “The Ediacaran Experiment,”
Natural History, Vol. 93, February 1984, pp. 22–23.]

 The brittlestar, an animal similar to a 5-arm starfish, has, as part
of its skeleton, thousands of eyes, each smaller than the diameter of
a human hair. Each eye consists of a calcium carbonate crystal that
acts as a compound lens and precisely focuses light on a bundle of
nerves. If an arm is lost, a new arm regenerates along with its array
of eyes mounted on the upper-back side of the arm. While evolutionists
had considered these animals primitive, Sambles admits that “Once
again we find that nature foreshadowed our technical developments.”
Roy Sambles, “Armed for Light Sensing,” Nature, Vol. 412, 23 August
2001, p. 783. The capabilities of these light-focusing lenses exceed
today’s technology.

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