 | Methodist Church - 1863 - 712 pages
...magician's wand that relieves him of every difficulty and brings about every result. Mr. Darwin says : To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seemai I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Books - 1914 - 524 pages
...extravagant liberty of speculation, as when he says, concerning the eye, — To suppose that the eye, with its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. — p. 186. But he soon returns to his new wantonness of conjecture, and, without... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Books - 1914 - 552 pages
...that the eye, with its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, fpr admitting different amounts of light, and for the...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. — p. 186. But he soon returns to his new wantonness of conjecture, and, without... | |
 | Charles Harris - Apologetics - 1914 - 668 pages
...as superior to one of glass as the works of the Creator are to those of man," and draws attention to "all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the...correction of spherical and chromatic aberration." But even if the imperfections of the structure of the eye were ever so great, it would still be 70... | |
 | Natural history - 1916 - 464 pages
...Species.'' Darwin writes: — "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjustmg the focus to different distances, for admitting different...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... | |
 | 1921 - 560 pages
...long intervals of time. ANSWER TO THE SECOND DIFFICULTY: 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... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - Science - 1997 - 742 pages
...this principle to explain the origin of what is, perhaps, the most complex of all structures, the eye. "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree" (p. 186). But then he shows, step by step, that this "difficulty" should not be considered "insuperable."... | |
 | Charles Birch, John B. Cobb - Science - 1985 - 372 pages
...test case for his theory, and he took these up in a chapter on 'difficulties of the theory'. He wrote: To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus of different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical... | |
 | D. S. Bendall - Science - 1983 - 612 pages
...in The Origin of Species under the heading Organs of extreme perfection and complication he begins: 'To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable...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 - Great Britain - 1971 - 372 pages
...chapter, "Difficulties on Theory," in a section entitled "Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication." To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...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... | |
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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,... 
