 | D. S. Bendall - 1983 - 612 pages
...complication he begins: '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 correcting of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems.... | |
 | Robert Maxwell Young - 1971 - 372 pages
...Complication." To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Joy Harvey, Duncan M. Porter, Jonathan R. Topham - 1997 - 1018 pages
...contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting difieren t amounts «flight, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Vet reason teils me. that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to... | |
 | David Owain Maurice Charles - 1992 - 500 pages
...eye as follows: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to... | |
 | Geert Keil - 1993 - 444 pages
...Beispiel das Auge: "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree" (Darwin 1859, 186).16 - Solche defaitistischen Anwandlungen überwand Darwin, indem... | |
 | Michael Anthony Corey - 1994 - 452 pages
...this conclusion: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree (emphasis mine).'10 Notes 1. Peter R. Grant, "Natural Selection and Darwin's Finches," Scientific American,... | |
 | Alan F. Wright - 1994 - 554 pages
...Origin of Species" To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the forus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...could have been formed by natural selection, seems, 1 freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerons gradations from... | |
 | Gert Hummel - 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... | |
 | Arne A. Wyller - 1996 - 288 pages
...Nature's design: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...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 - 1994 - 868 pages
...Darwin wrote: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts...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? Geology... | |
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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,... 
