You can't quantify the complexity of something like an eye. The eye could actually be very very simple to form, due to circumstances and variables outside of our knowledge.
Scientists have discovered that the animal with the most genes--about 31,000--is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans have about 23,000 genes.
One of the most astonishing features of the D. pulex genome is its compactness: despite being around 200 Mb in size (around 16-fold smaller than the human genome which is 3,200 Mb in size); its 12 chromosomes contain a minimum set of 30,907 predicted protein-coding genes, more than the 20,000–25,000 contained in the human counterpart.
The unexpected complexity of the water flea genome compared with a human genome illustrates unknown dimensions of complexity that we cannot fully comprehend.
What this means is this. You do not know how complicated the original template of life is... the complexity for the first genome to produce instructions that allow for self replication to kick off evolution may be so complex that it could only happen once on our planet, once in this galaxy or once in the universe.
We simply do not have the knowledge to know the probability space of life on earth or life as we know it.
Scientists have discovered that the animal with the most genes--about 31,000--is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans have about 23,000 genes.
One of the most astonishing features of the D. pulex genome is its compactness: despite being around 200 Mb in size (around 16-fold smaller than the human genome which is 3,200 Mb in size); its 12 chromosomes contain a minimum set of 30,907 predicted protein-coding genes, more than the 20,000–25,000 contained in the human counterpart.
The unexpected complexity of the water flea genome compared with a human genome illustrates unknown dimensions of complexity that we cannot fully comprehend.
What this means is this. You do not know how complicated the original template of life is... the complexity for the first genome to produce instructions that allow for self replication to kick off evolution may be so complex that it could only happen once on our planet, once in this galaxy or once in the universe.
We simply do not have the knowledge to know the probability space of life on earth or life as we know it.