You may have heard in apologetics that the human eye could not have evolved. Like a mouse trap, taking any part away would make it useless – what use is half an eye. We called this: Irreducible complexity.

This is actually a better example of the power of our own confirmation bias. That this barely thought through idea was repeated so often and went unexamined in my mind for so long. It doesn’t take much more than an episode of Blue Planet to see amazing current examples of the usefulness of ‘less evolved’ eyes.

This is something that Prof Dawkins explains well in the above clip.

Dr Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford. He holds a BA in zoology from Balliol College, Oxford, and a master’s and two doctorates from the same college.