Darwin’s critics focused on the development of the eye, because it is a complex, highly organized organ with a lot of sub-parts. To them, it seemed impossible that such a complex organ could have arisen part-by-part—it must have been created all at once (and many of them believed it was God who did this creation). While Darwin is careful not to antagonize religious readers, he strongly believes that no part of an organism is created all at once—natural selection is always an accumulation of small, gradual changes.