 | Paul W. Glimcher - Medical - 2004 - 404 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. (Darwin, 1859) Nonetheless, the eye does exist, and it does seem in many ways to capture light in a... | |
 | Werner Gitt, K. H. Vanheiden - Nature - 2001 - 130 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." Every individual part of the eye can only enable sight in the presence of all other parts... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 2003 - 494 pages
...admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection, seems,...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.' How readily explicable is this great central fact of nature on the common theory! Again, 'Why does... | |
 | Adam Zeman - Science - 2004 - 420 pages
...work of a Maker. As Darwin wrote: 'to suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree'.6 He confessed to Asa Gray that 'the eye to this day gives me a cold shudder'7 But he conquered... | |
 | Cristina E. Rodriguez - Religion - 2003 - 266 pages
...retina has 137, 000,000 light sensitive cells. Charles Darwin himself said, "To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." So if a man cannot begin to make a human eye, then how could anyone in his right mind think... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 2003 - 493 pages
...eye, with its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
 | C. DeSalvo - Philosophy - 2004 - 321 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." Still Darwin believed that evolution could have done it, and therefore evolution is valid. Because... | |
 | Mark Edward Moore, Mark Scott - Religion - 2004 - 310 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.1 Nevertheless, Darwin went on to explain to his readers that the impression of absurdity was... | |
 | Marjorie Grene, David J. Depew - Philosophy - 2004 - 446 pages
...438). 9 See, eg, Darwin 1859, pp. 29, 103, 174, 190-192, 193, 195-197, 198-205, 306, 354, 407, 460. and for the correction of spherical and chromatic...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. He then enumerates the conditions under which this staggering difficulty could be overcome:... | |
 | Michael B. Fossel M.D. - Science - 2004 - 504 pages
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...could have been formed by natural selection, seems . . . absurd in the highest degree." But as Darwin argued at least as well if not as succinctly, biology... | |
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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,... 
