 | Robert Watts - Apologetics - 1888 - 440 pages
...presented in the structure and functions of the organ of vision, with, as Mr. Darwin expresses it, "all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the...focus to different distances, for admitting different degrees of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration," will wonder that even... | |
 | Januarius De Concilio - Apologetics - 1889 - 276 pages
...This implies such monstrous assumptions that even Darwin has been staggered. 'To suppose,' he says, 'that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to difierent distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 pages
...diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks. Organs of extreme Perfection and Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks. Organs of extreme Perfection and Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1902 - 472 pages
...diving thrushes, and petrels with the habits of auks. Organs of extreme perfection and complication. — To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...could have been formed by natural selection, seems, 1 freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations... | |
 | Thomas Hunt Morgan - Adaptation (Biology). - 1903 - 498 pages
...extreme perfection and complication cannot be accounted for by natural selection, as follows : — " To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." The following sketch that Darwin gives to show how he imagined the vertebrate eye to have been formed... | |
 | Dennis Hird - Evolution - 1903 - 260 pages
...difficulty — namely, the development of organs of extreme perfection and complexity. He himself says : " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...admitting different amounts of light, and for the correcting of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems,... | |
 | Charles Edmund Fisher - Medicine - 1904 - 404 pages
...adapted mechanism for protective and restorative purposes any more startling than the evolution of the eye "with all its inimitable contrivances for...correction of spherical and chromatic aberration?" Within the highest division of the animal kingdom, the vertebrates, we can start with an eye so simple... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 pages
...diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks. ORGANS OF EXTREME PERFECTION AND COMPLICATION. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and forThe correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 712 pages
...himself is staggered when asked to explain the development of the eye by natural selection. He says : To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. — P. 167. Yet he screws up his courage to face the difficulty. Here is the whole... | |
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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,... 
