It remains
to be said that the organs described by Darwin as "primitive"
eyes actually possess a complex and irreducible structure
that can never be explained by chance. Even in its simplest
form, for seeing to happen, some of a creature's cells need
to become light-sensitive-that is, they need to possess the
ability to transduce this sensitivity to light into electrical
signals; a nerve network from these cells to the brain needs
to emerge; and a visual center in the brain to evaluate the
information has to be formed. It is senseless to propose that
all of these things came about by chance, at the same time,
and in the same living thing. In his book Evrim Kurami
ve Bagnazlik (The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry), which
he wrote to defend the theory of evolution, the evolutionist
writer Cemal Yildirim admits this fact in this way:
A large number of mechanisms
need to work together for sight: As well as the eye and
the mechanisms inside it, we can mention the links between
special centers in the brain and the eye. How did this complex
system-creation come about? According to biologists, the
first step in the emergence of the eye during the evolutionary
process was taken with the appearance of a small, light-sensitive
area on the skin of some primitive living things. But what
advantage could such a minute development on its own confer
on a living thing in natural selection? As well
as this, there needs to be a visual center formed in the
brain and a nerve system linked to it. As long as these
rather complicated mechanisms are not linked to one another,
then we cannot expect what we call "sight" to emerge. Darwin
believed that variations emerged by chance. If that were
the case, would not the appearance of all the many variations
that sight requires in various places in the organism at
the same time and their working together turn into a mystical
puzzle?… However, a number of complementary changes working
together in harmony and cooperation are needed for sight…
Some molluscs' eyes have retina, cornea, and a lens of cellulose
tissue just like ours. Now, how can we explain the evolutionary
processes of these two very different types requiring a
string of chance events just by natural selection? It is
a matter for debate whether Darwinists have been able to
provide a satisfactory answer to this question…352
This problem is so great from the evolutionist
point of view that the closer we look at the details, the
worse the quandary the theory finds itself in. One important
"detail" which needs to be looked at is the claim about "the
cell which came to be sensitive to light." Darwinists gloss
this over by saying, "Sight may have started by a single cell
becoming sensitive to light." But what kind of design is such
a structure supposed to have had?
 
352 Cemal
Yildirim, Evrim Kurami ve Bagnazlik (Theory of Evolution
and Bigotry), Bilgi Publications, January 1989, pp. 58-59.
(emphasis added) |