 | Gert Hummel - Philosophy - 1994 - 308 pages
...cleverly contrived is the eye with its intricate abilities to focus, admit degrees of light, etc. That it "could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."16 Nevertheless, he goes on to argue that we need not invoke a Divine Designer if we suppose... | |
 | Arne A. Wyller - Religion - 1996 - 288 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberrations, could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. 7 Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?... | |
 | Joel S. Glaser - Medical - 1999 - 722 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Charles Darwin "Organs of extreme perfection and complication" In The Origin of Species, 1859 Accurate... | |
 | Rick Jones - Religion - 2000 - 65 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. . . The belief that an organ as perfect as the eye could have formed by natural selection is more than... | |
 | Roger Lewin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1999 - 276 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely admit, absurd in the highest degree possible." Nevertheless, he concluded, that because there is "no... | |
 | Evelyn Fox KELLER - Science - 2009 - 194 pages
...himself acknowledged, "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances . . . could have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."49 Given this background, discovery of "the master control gene" responsible for eye morphogenesis... | |
 | Paul E. Little - Religion - 2000 - 196 pages
...Theory" states: "To suppose that the eye, with so many parts all working together . . . could have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Harvard's Richard Lewontin, an evolutionist, states that organisms "appear to have been carefully... | |
 | Theodore Roszak - Nature - 2001 - 388 pages
...eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjustmg the focus to different distances, for admittmg different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. Still, he perseveres in the effort, suggesting that we must suppose that there is a power,... | |
 | Peter A. Ensminger - Science - 2008 - 288 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. — Charles Darwin So begins a famous passage entitled "Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication"... | |
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... 
