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Have you ever heard of the Baghdad battery?
It is an archaeological find that consists of a ceramic pot, copper tube, and iron rod that seems to suggest that the ancient Babylonians were the first to use batteries. I find it incredibly fascinating when ‘advanced technologies’ are found in ancient nations because it opposes the conventionally accepted progression from simple to more advanced. We are not supposed to find advanced ‘technologies’ in earlier periods of history.
But does this ever happen in the fossil record? Yes it does.
One example involves an extinct animal called the trilobite. Trilobites are basically a heavily armoured underwater bug, similar to a horseshoe crab but larger and scarier. There are many advanced features on the trilobite but for the purposes of this post we’ll focus on its eye.
Why the trilobite? Because trilobites are one of the first animals to appear in the fossil record, found in the Cambrian Period.
Why the trilobite eye? Palaeontologists agree that the trilobite eye is the oldest eye1 we have in the fossil record.
Now remember, according to the theory of evolution we should see a gradual progression from simple to more complex.
But this is not so with the trilobite eye. In fact, it wasn’t until the 1600’s that humans could replicate the same design with ground glass. The lens in the eye is a doublet (which is two lenses affixed together) that corrects for spherical aberration. The trilobite is also capable of seeing close to 360-degree vision: forwards, backwards, sideways, and even downwards all from one position. Scientists agree that the trilobite eye is an “impressive feat of early evolution” despite also agreeing that no evidence of trilobite evolution exists.2
The trilobite eye may be a surprise to an evolutionist, but this fully lines up with what is written in Genesis, that God created it and saw that it was good.
- Clarkson. E, et al. The eyes of trilobites : The oldest preserved visual system. National Library of Medicine, PubMed.gov, Dec 2006, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18089074/. Accessed Mar 7, 2022.
- Shawver, L. Trilobite Eyes: An Impressive feat of Early Evolution. Science News, Vol 105, No. 5 (Feb 2, 1974), pp 72-73
