Highly complex eyes have been found in half-a-billion-year-old rocks from South Australia, suggesting that vision evolved rapidly with the arrival of early modern
animals.
Seriously? This suggests that "vision evolved rapidly" only if you can accept no other explanation of origins. Kind of funny that Charles Darwin himself understood how difficult it was to explain how the eye evolved. It happened really, really quickly!
The newly discovered eyes have a dense and regular hexagonal array of over 3,000 large lenses. The design turns out to be just as advanced as the compound eyes of modern arthropods, Paterson said.
Isn't that strange, THIS fossil is consistent with the rest of the fossil record which is stasis. The eye is just as advanced as modern arthropods implying, if you don't have your evolution blinders on, that THE EYE HAS NOT CHANGED in 500 million years of evolution, AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE, that it changed before that.
Given the advantages conferred by sharp vision for avoiding predators and locating food and shelter, there must have been great evolutionary pressure to refine visual organs. The new fossils are consistent with the idea that the development of advanced vision helped drive the great evolutionary event known as the Cambrian explosion.
The Cambrian explosion, according to this theory, is due to the rapid evolution (sorry it was so rapid we don't have any intermediate forms, just trust us) of advanced vision. Which is about as good an explanation that evolutionary science can come up with for the sudden appearance of thousands upon thousands of new animals in the fossil record. The eyes did it!
The discovery shows arthropods achieved sophisticated vision in the earliest stages of their evolution.
I love it! The discovery shows no such thing. That is your interpretation of data which doesn't fit into your theoretical framework so you have to pound it in so that it fits.
Poor evolution, you're always trying to explain away the evidence for design.
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