The Eye of the Lobster

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Here is a another interesting blow to the evolution theory from

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There are many different types of eye in the living world. The most

generally known is the camera-type eye found in vertebrates. This structure

works on the principle of the refraction of light, which falls onto the lens

and is focused on a point behind the lens inside the interior of the eye.

However, the eyes possessed by other creatures work by different methods.

One example is the lobster. A lobster's eye works on a principle of

reflection rather than that of refraction.

 

The most outstanding characteristic of the lobster eye is its surface, which

is composed of numerous squares. As shown in the picture, these squares are

positioned most precisely.

 

The eye of a lobster shows a remarkable geometry not found elsewhere in

nature-it has tiny facets that are perfectly square, so it "looks like

perfect graph paper."1

 

These well-arranged squares are in fact the ends of tiny square tubes

forming a structure resembling a honeycomb. At first glance, the honeycomb

appears to be made up of hexagons, although 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.2

The extraordinary nature of the design 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

geometrical alignments so that they all focus the light at a single point.

It is obvious that the design in 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 eliminated, 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 design as

this could have come about haphazardly. It is quite clear that the lobster

eye was created 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 lobster's eye

was one example, is found in only one group of crustaceans, the so-called

long-bodied decapods. This family includes the lobsters, the prawns and the

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. On the

contrary, only one group of the crustaceans, namely the long-bodied

decapods, have reflecting eyes. According to evolutionist assumptions, all

the creatures within the class Crustacea should have evolved from the same

ancestor. Therefore, evolutionists claim that reflecting eye evolved from a

refracting eye, which is far more common among the crustacea and of a

fundamentally simpler design.

 

However, such reasoning is impossible, because both eye structures function

perfectly within their own systems and have no room for any "transitional"

phase. A crustacean would be left sightless and would be eliminated by

natural selection if the refracting lens in its eye were to diminish and be

replaced by reflecting mirrored surfaces.

 

It is, therefore, certain that both of these eye structures were designed

and created separately. There is such superb geometric precision in these

eyes that entertaining the possibility of "coincidence" is simply ludicrous.

We can encounter such miracles as these regardless of what we examine in the

world of creation. Just like the rest of the miracles of creation, the

lobster's eye structure is an open testimony to our Lord's boundless power

to create flawlessly.

 

1. B.K. Hartline, "Lobster-Eye X-ray Telescope Envisioned," Science, Vol.

207, p. 47.

2. Michael F. Land, "Superposition Images Are Formed by Reflection in Eyes

of Some Oceanic Decapod Crustacea", Nature, Vol. 263, pp.764-765.