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Chapter 17. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that Complex Organs cannot Appear by Way of Evolution

How could highly complex organs such as the eye, lung and wings have emerged gradually during the evolutionary process? That is one of the greatest dilemmas facing evolutionists, who leave it unanswered. These interconnected structures, one of which serves no purpose in the absence of another, cannot emerge in stages, as evolutionists claim. Organs possessing such a characteristic, known as irreducible complexity in the scientific literature, will become functionless if any one of their components is missing.

The eye, for example, consists of some forty different organelles and will be unable to see if any one of those forty-the retina, for instance-is absent. That being so, in order for an eye to function, all these forty organelles must all come into being, together with the other systems that make sight possible-and that can only happen by way of creation.

Contrary to what evolutionists claim, it is impossible for the eye to have formed as the result of these organelles all emerging, one by one, over millions of years. Because in the absence of just one organelle, an eye that's unable to see will, to use an evolutionist term, become vestigial and disappear before it even fully forms. This also applies to all other complex structures. Confronted by this scientific reality, evolutionists try to prevent the issue from being raised or else, as you shall see below, feel forced into making confessions on the subject.

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":

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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.

Charles Darwin:


It is Almighty Allah Who creates the plumage of the peacock that so perplexed Darwin.

The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder.343








California University professor of biology Christopher Wills states in The Wisdom of the Genes:


Engin Korur:



The question of how the division of a fertilized egg leads to the birth of countless cells differentiated from each other in every possible respect heads the list of those that leave scientists scratching their heads. Although conceptual frameworks capable of giving a rough analysis of what is going on have been established, the phenomenon as a whole still represents a collection of unanswerable questions.353

Richard Dawkins is a British zoologist and one of the leading contemporary evolutionists:


Prof. Russell Doolittle is professor of biochemistry at the University of California in San Diego:

How in the world did this complex and delicately balanced process evolve?... The paradox was, if each protein depended on activation by another, how could the system ever have arisen? Of what use would any part of the scheme be without the whole ensemble?355

From a letter that Sir Charles Lyell, a renowned mid-19th century geologist, wrote to Darwin:

Pages would be required thus to state an objection and remove it. It would be better, as you wish to persuade, to say nothing.356

A letter to Darwin from Asa Gray, an American botanist of the 19th century and one of his best friends:

Well, that seems to me the weakest point on the book is the attempt to account for the formation of organs, the making of eyes, &c., by natural selection. Some of this reads quite Lamarckian.357

Hoimar Von Ditfurth:

When nature found an eye socket, it was confronted by the same dilemma. This eye, which emerged as a quite unexpected step with the successive accumulation of light-sensitive cells in the front part of the body due to very different causes, must have faced the threat of instant elimination because of the way it was a functionless mechanism. Because two totally opposing demands, illumination or clarity, could not have been met in its state at that time. We know that the eye overcame this dilemma by using a lens. Because no matter how large the aperture, no matter how much light enters the chamber, the lens still provides images with no lack of clarity by performing "net focusing." But is the universe a physicist? Because only physicists know how the lens will overcome this difficulty, and we who read their words.358

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Frank B. Salisbury is professor and head of the Department of Plant Science at Utah State University:


Professor Ali Demirsoy is a biologist at Hacettepe University in Turkey and specializes in zoogeography:

It is rather hard to reply to a third objection. How was it possible for a complicated organ to come about suddenly even though it brought benefits with it? For instance, how did the lens, retina, optic nerve, and all the other parts in vertebrates that play a role in seeing suddenly come about? Because natural selection cannot choose separately between the visual nerve and the retina. The emergence of the lens has no meaning in the absence of a retina. The simultaneous development of all the structures for sight is unavoidable. Since parts that develop separately cannot be used, they will all be meaningless, and also perhaps disappear with time. At the same time, their development all together requires the coming together of unimaginably small probabilities.360

Prof. Cemal Yıldırım, a Turkish evolutionist, is Professor of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University:





Some mollusks' eyes have retina, cornea, and a lens just like ours. How can we account for this construction in two species on such very different evolutionary levels solely in terms of natural selection?... It is a matter for debate whether Darwinists can supply a satisfactory answer to that question...361

Ernst Mayr is one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists:


Evolutionists have had to admit their helplessness in the face of the extraordinarily complex structure of the eye. But the really important fact that inflicts the greatest defeat on evolutionists in terms of the eye is that IT IS NOT THE EYE THAT SEES AT ALL. The photon strikes the eye and an electric signal goes from the eye to the brain. The electric signal departs the eye and arrives at an area of the brain no larger than a lentil known as the visual cortex. And the image forms in that lentil-sized space. THERE IS AN EYE that sees the images that forms there. AND ‘THAT’ IS THE REALLY PERFECT EYE. That eye sees the electricity reaching it. And with a flawless perception of depth and vividity, in moving three dimension and bright color. Yet that area itself is pitch-dark.

IT IS OUR SOULS that watch the fast-moving, colored and three-dimensional world on the outside inside our brains. The soul is entirely metaphysical and cannot be explained in terms of any material concept. That is why materialists, who seek to account for everything in material terms, atheists and evolutionists are in such a state of panic. The soul bestowed by Almighty Allah utterly demolishes and eradicates Darwinism and all kinds of intellectual systems espoused by Darwinists. (For more detail, see The Soul, Darwin’s Dilemma, by Harun Yahya)



343- Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, p. 67.

344- Ibid., p. 90.

345- Ibid., p. 84.


347- Ibid.

348- Ibid.

349- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, New York: New York University Press, p. 151.

350- Ibid., p. 198.

351- Christopher Wills, The Wisdom of the Genes, Istanbul; Sarmal Yayınevi, March 1997, pp. 151-152.

352- Engin Korur, "Gozlerin ve Kanatlarin Sirri" ["The Secret of Eyes and Wings"], Bilim ve Teknik, No. 203, October 1984, p. 25.

353- Hoimar Von Ditfurth, Dinozorlar›n Sessiz Gecesi 2 ["The Silent Nights of the Dinosaurs 2"], p. 126.

354- Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, New York: Basic Books, 1995, p. 83.

355- Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box, Free Press; 2nd Rev. Ed edition (March 7, 2006), p. 91.

356- Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, p. 3.

357- Ibid., p. 66.

358- Hoimar Von Ditfurth, Dinozorlar›n Sessiz Gecesi 3, ["The Silent Nights of the Dinosaurs 3"],  p. 165.


360- Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy, Kalitim ve Evrim ["Inheritance and Evolution"], p. 475.

361- Cemal Yildirim, Evrim Kurami ve Bagnazlik ["The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry"], pp. 58-59.

362- Ernst Mayr, Systematics and the Origin of Species, New York: Dove Press, 1964, p. 296.



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