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time when he drew his plans. Now, the eye is a complicated 
instrument especially adapted to the purpose of seeing, and 
every part fulfils its purpose. Reason, therefore, says it must 
have been constructed by an intelligent being. This is the 
verdict of reason. The imagination of the evolutionist, on 
the other hand, sees a multitude of sightless creatures ; then, 
after an immense lapse of ages, a certain number of these 
eyeless creatures appear with rudimentary eyes. Then in 
after ages a number of these improve their rudimeutary 
organs — but some, however, do not. Again, the struggle 
goes on, and after ages upon ages have passed, the more 
favoured creatures become the fortunate possessors of better 
eyes ; and so on, until at last the wonderful eye of man is 
the result. A pretty picture this, but it is a picture of pure 
but unscientific, imagination. 
Now, as it is the office of reason to control the imagi- 
nation, we will allow the master-faculty to fulfil its mission. 
Reason says every change must have its adequate cause ; and 
so the change from the non-seeing to the seeing, and the 
possession of a perfect organ of vision must have been 
effected, not by natural selectioffi^ — which must have been un- 
reasoning, — but by intelligence — by the mind and act of God. 
There is another point which should receive attention in this 
investigation. It is this. There are thousands of creatures 
now existing — and which, on the showing of the evolutionist, 
have existed for unnumbered ages, which have but rudi- 
mentary eyes — as, for instance, the Medusa. Now, it must 
not be forgotten that the ancestors of these creatures have 
been using their rudimentary eyes during all these thousands 
upon thousands of years which, we are told, must have elapsed 
since they appeared, and yot not one of them has succeeded 
in evolving a more complex structure than any of its prede- 
cessors. How is this ? 
Again, the trilobite, one of the oldest of the Medals of 
Creation,^^ had compound eyes like those of the insecta of the 
present day. And there have been creatures in all ages of the 
world which have possessed compound eyes, who have used 
them well in the great struggle for life all through the geological 
and recent ages, and yet they are still the same in structure — 
no evolution of even an iris or an eyelid. 
Again, there are fossil spiders found in some of the older 
rocks. These spiders have a number of simple eyes. There 
are spiders still, all of which have eyes of the same kind as 
their ancient ancestors. And yet all through the long vista of 
ages, since the time when those fossil spiders lived and crawled 
amidst the forests of the Miocene period, few creatures have 
