We did not simply evolve from an amoeba. We were created. John Blanchard uses ‘the human eye to provide a good illustration. It comes with automatic aiming, focusing and aperture adjustment and its tiny retina has 130 million receptor cells, 124 million of which are rod-shaped and differentiate between light and darkness, and six million of which are cone-shaped and can identify up to eight million variations of colour. Is it possible that all of these features came into being by means of the genetic equivalent of typing errors over millions of years? Those who insist that this is the case (and Darwin did, is spite of admitting that for natural selection to form the eye was ‘absurd in the highest possible degree’ ) have surely missed the point that a partial eye is useless. Five percent of an eye would not give you five percent vision – it would give none. What is more, even if all the physical components of an eye were in place, they would achieve nothing unless they were precisely ‘wired’ to an amazing complex of nerve cells in the brain. Small wonder that someone has suggested, ‘Examination of the eye is a cure for atheism.’

[Note: John Blanchard, 2004, Has Science Got Rid of God, Darlington UK: Evangelical Press, p.66-67]

Cited by E. Shute, Flaws in the Theory of Evolution, Craig Press, p.127-128