The most fascinating creature of the Cambrian period

Trilobites are one of the most fascinating ancient arthropods, they appeared together with many other complex creatures during the Cambrian explosion some 500 million years ago.

They lived a highly adaptive life with their perfect forms and remained prolific in the Cambria seas for over 250 million years. They came in dazzling varieties and are the best-preserved members of the Paleozoic era. One particular feature of trilobites had a structure that expert optic physicians could not even think of having found in animals, their marvelous compound eyes. The eyes of trilobites are the earliest known visual system that existed with unbelievable complexity, perfection, and superiority, at a time when according to present-day biologists no complex life should have existed. The most important and distinguishing feature in trilobite eyes is calcite. Calcite is one of the commonest and most durable minerals on Earth. Buildings made of calcite-rich limestone thousands of years ago still stand strong and beautiful. The calcite found in the eyes of trilobites is transparent and has optical properties, if you fracture a piece of calcite it always breaks in line with its own atomic structure, in a rhombus shape that allows light to pass through it, the presence of this optical calcite in the eyes of trilobites makes them totally unique in the entire animal kingdom, as the eyes of nearly all animals are composed of soft organic material. And because their eyes were made of calcite like the rest of their body, they too have been very well preserved and reveal astonishing details about their perfect structure and function.

The compound eyes of Trilobites

Most trilobites had compound eyes of holochroal type with many thousands of closely packed hexagonal lenses covered under a single corneal layer. Each lens captured an image from a slightly different angle, forming a mosaic-like picture and giving the trilobite a wide range of vision to perceive danger from any direction The resolution and detail of the images also depended on the number of lenses they had. One species of trilobite had 3,000 lenses per eye, and another had 15,000. The complexity of their eyes and brains' ability to process images from thousands of lenses that early in life must have been incredibly great. according to scientists compound eyes of trilobites that lived 500 million years ago were as advanced in function as the eyes of dragonflies today. 

The most interesting eyes in the world

One particular group of trilobites phacopina had an even more interesting visual system, the like of which never appeared again in any living being. These trilobites had compound eyes consisting of a few to a few hundred separated lenses that were larger and thicker, the shape of these lenses looked more like a marble. and if you gazed through a clear marble, you would see that it refracts light at different angles, resulting in a blurry image. this innate problem in thick lenses is known as spherical aberration. Since the lenses of phacopids were made of thick crystal, they too must have experienced the same problem. but in the 1970s When Mr. Kenneth Towe shone light through the lenses of a trilobite, instead of getting a blurry, ill-focused image, he obtained an extremely sharp image. it is as if the trilobite defied the physical laws, The mysterious reason behind this exceedingly sharp image, was only discovered many years later when paleontologist  Euan Clarkson and physicist Ricardo Levi-Setti examined and found out that the lens in trilobite eyes had an extraordinary shape. The shape of these lenses matched the two ideal constructions worked out by the 17th-century optic pioneers Descartes and Huygens to counteract spherical aberration. They were totally unaware of the fact that the very designs they proposed were being used by trilobites 500 million years ago. There was another surprising fact that came to light: the lens in the eyes of trilobite was not based on a single unit, but a doublet This doublet nature of lenses is something only humans have invented, it is not ever observed in any living being. Because trilobites lived underwater and the refractive index of water is different from that of air, the second lens unit along with that ideal shape was absolutely necessary, without it the trilobite wouldn't have seen well underwater. the second lens unit with a lower refractive index based on chitin and intricately arranged magnesium atoms at the interface between the two lenses helped bring the light to focus at a single point and thus allowed the trilobite to receive an extremely sharp image of its surroundings. The trilobite with its extraordinary visual system shocked scientists so much so that they were perplexed to even consider it a reality. 

The questions that arise 

These shocking discoveries about trilobites' eyes gave rise to many questions, How did trilobite know the optical properties of calcite and use it for vision? How did it get the ideal lens shape that only expert opticians could draw? How did it know that a second lens with a lower refractive index would be needed underwater? Moreover, how did both lenses happen to align perfectly to meet the visual needs of trilobite?! Did Trilobite think of it all and develop these astonishing eyes by itself? The trilobite itself indeed had no knowledge or power to make any relevant changes in its body, nor can any of this ever be explained in terms of evolution because trilobites appeared suddenly in the fossil record and their complex eyes existed never before and never after them, The miraculous existence of trilobites, and the stunning and unmatchable structure of their eyes could only be the masterwork of a supreme creator who is all-knowing and all-powerful. He is the one who gave trilobites and all other living beings astonishing features compatible with their surroundings right from the moment, they first appeared on Earth.

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Falsification of the Theory of Evolution demonstrates the Truth of Creation

 How life originated on earth is the most fundamental and almost as historical question as humanity itself. However, there are only two possible answers and these answers are also entirely opposite to each other. Evolution and Creation

The theory of Evolution was formulated by English researcher and Naturalist Charles Darwin in 1859. It claims that life came into existence by itself through natural processes which brought lifeless chemicals compounds together and somehow formed simple living cell that over the course of millions of years gradually became complex giving rise to hundreds of thousands of different species including Human beings.

Creationism, on the other hand, holds that No living being ever went through any kind of evolution, that all the living beings were consciously created by an intelligent creator who possesses infinite knowledge, wisdom, and artistry and manifested these attributes into the living beings creating them fully formed with all their complex systems and awe-inspiring designs right from the time they emerged.

American Evolutionary Biologist Douglas J. Futuyma agrees that there is no third possible answer  to the origin of life other than the two mentioned above:

 ''Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-existing species by some process of modification. If they did appear in a fully developed state, they must indeed have been created by some omnipotent intelligence.'' 

Now both of these answers of the Origin of life clearly stand in opposition to each other, the evolution view relies upon blind chance or coincidence as the sole creator of all the living beings, while the creation view relies on an intelligent and supreme creator as the sole creator of all the living beings. Both of these being contradictory to each other cannot be true for the same thing at the same time and therefore one of them must be false. And if the falsification of one of them is demonstrated the other answer to the origin of life establishes the truth.

The falsification of the theory of evolution can easily be demonstrated through modern scientific findings.

Two major pieces of Evidence that dealt a lethal blow to the invalidity of the theory of Evolution come right from where the theory seeks to establish its validity i.e., from the examination of the beginning of the fossil record and coming into existence of the first living cell which is the fundamental unit of life.

Theory of Evolution claims that living beings by going through minor changes over the course of millions of years evolved from primitive, simpler life forms to advance and complex life forms with common ancestry, in other words, evolutionists maintain that all the animals and plants on earth descended from the first primitive cell. If Evolution occurred and species evolved, logically, there would be an enormous number of intermediate forms between every two specie, there would be odd looking living beings such as half-fish and half-amphibian or half-reptile and half-bird as a result of species turning into another. But of all the discovered fossils, not a single fossil of any intermediate form of evolved specie has ever been found. On the contrary, fossils found in the deepest Cambrian strata show that the majority of the animal phyla emerged suddenly and fully formed during this brief geological period known as the Cambrian explosion. Fossils from Cambrian rocks belonged to distinct invertebrate life forms such as snails, trilobites, sponges, worms, sea anemones, starfishes, shellfish, and jellyfish, etc. These species possessed complex systems such as compound eyes, gills, antennas, circulatory systems, stomach, feet, and advanced physiological structures identical to those possessed by today's living beings. What is most interesting about these distinct species is that they have no ancestors to the single-celled organism existing before. This sudden emergence of living species possessing complex systems and extraordinary features with no forerunners clearly refute claims of simpler living forms progressing gradually to complex living forms.
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Well-known British Zoologist and Evolutionist Richard Dawkins admits the fact that living beings did emerged suddenly with no evolutionary history, in the Cambrian period:

      ''For example, the Cambrian strata of rocks. . . are the oldest ones in which we find most of the  major invertebrate groups. And we find many  of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needles to say, this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists.''

Darwin himself admitted that the sudden emergence of species would pose a fatal threat to his theory:

''If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent  with slow modification through natural selection.''  

The sudden emergence of the perfect and fully formed living beings in the fossil record proves the fact that all living beings are created by Allah without evolution.

Living cell and its complex organelles

Another blow to the very foundation of the theory of evolution comes from Molecular biology. Evolutionists maintain that the first living cell emerged by coincidence when certain chemical reactions took place in the primordial soup some 4 billion years ago.

Recent scientific findings of Molecular biology have revealed that the cell which is the fundamental unit of life contains the most complex systems humanity has ever encountered. With all its energy-generating powerhouses, enzymes and hormones manufacturing factories, information storage data bank, transportation systems, advanced laboratories, border security, and the intelligence displayed by all of these systems, working in total harmony and co-operation, in a place invisible to the human eye, couldn't have come into existence by coincidence. The living cell maintains its existence with the co-operation of all of its components, having one organelle is useless without the other. Even if only one of these organelles is missing, the cell cannot remain alive. This means the first cell had to be fully formed and functioning to continue its survival, a fact that totally refute the claim of evolutionists that the cell developed its organelles later through evolution.

protein synthesis

Much to their surprise, scientists state that the probability of coming into existence of a single protein molecule that constitutes the fundamental material of the living cell is scientifically ''Zero''. In order for a single protein to form countless essential conditions need to be present there such as 1) the selection of 20 special amino acids out of 200 amino acids found in nature, 2) the left-handedness of all these 20 amino acids, 3) particular arrangement of the amino acids and the peptide bond linking them together,4) the specific 3D shape without which the protein cannot function, 6-7) the presences of other proteins for that single protein to form which again requires the simultaneous existence of DNA that has the code of manufacturing proteins, 8) and the need of the existence of the fully-functioning cell as a whole makes it totally impossible for the protein, an exceedingly complex biostructure, to have appeared in the primitive conditions of the earth by itself. Any attempt to synthesis protein in the most advanced laboratories under highly controlled conditions have already met with great defeat. This shows that the theory of evolution is unable to explain how a single protein molecule came into being by chance, let alone a single cell, and thereby emerging hundreds of thousands of species.

German scientific journalist Hoimar von Ditfurth wrote in his book ''Im Anfang War Der Wasserstoff'' (Secret Night of the Dinosaurs):

''When we look back, we see that we need not be surprised that we have been unable to find those transitional forms so almost painfully sought. Because in all likelihood, no such intermediate stage ever happened. What we know today shows that the general principle of the universe is not a reality here, and that it is out of the question for the primitive cell to have developed in stages and to have eventually turned into a cell with a nucleus and organelles.''

These facts clearly demolish the theory of evolution right from the outset and show that the claims of the theory of evolution are far from being scientific that cannot be regarded as rational in explaining the perfect creation of every single living being. Modern Scientific findings have proved the theory of evolution to be false. But the adherents of the theory of evolution continue to keep the theory alive by deceiving people with false evidence and imaginary stories solely because they do not want to accept that God, the possessor of infinite might, knowledge, wisdom, and artistry, is the creator of everything non-living and living and that He is the one who gave every living being the necessary systems suiting best to their surroundings.

Verily, His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, “Be!”– and it is! (33:82)

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