 | Ken Stocker, Jim Stocker - Religion - 2006 - 326 pages
...Listen to what Darwin himself had to say about the possibility of life forms just developing sight: "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." — Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species" 3 Darwin had an answer for that apparent absurdity. Faith.... | |
 | Steve McRoberts - 472 pages
...your book, Did Man Get Here by Evolution or by Creation?. Here on page 35 it quotes Darwin as saying: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. "That's all your book quotes of Darwin, and then it comments that a 'halfformed' eye would've been... | |
 | Richard Dawkins - Religion - 2011 - 464 pages
...as 'irreducibly complex'. Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.' Creationists gleefully quote this sentence again and again. Needless to say, they never quote what... | |
 | Martyn Percy - Religion - 2006 - 228 pages
...perhaps, some recognition of this in Darwin's own work. Speculating on the origin of the eye, he writes: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect... | |
 | Jack T. Holladay - Eye - 2007 - 164 pages
...Surgeon Minnesota Eye Consultants, PA Chief Medical Editor Ocular Surgery News 1 Understanding Optics To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Chapter 6, "Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication"... | |
 | Francis S. Collins - Religion - 2006 - 305 pages
...recognized the difficulty that his readers would have accepting this: "To suppose that the eye with all of its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest 191 OPTION 3: INTELLIGENT DESIGN degree. "3Yet Darwin, ever the impressive comparative biologist, proposed... | |
 | Chris Thorogood - 2006 - 414 pages
...Paleontologist, British Museum of Natural History.) 10. 'To suppose that the eye with all its imitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.* (Charles Darwin, in 'The Origin of Species.) 1 1 . 'The chance that higher life forms might have emerged... | |
 | Christopher H. K. Persaud - Religion - 2007 - 422 pages
...less insurmountable challenge to his Theory of Evolution. The British naturalist worriedly ruminated, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree" (Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species, 1859, p. 146). The very existence of this remarkable organ... | |
 | Lenny Flank - Religion - 2007 - 245 pages
...creationist favorite because, they say, it comes from Darwin himself, who wrote, in Origin of Species: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. The creationists, of course, neglect to finish the rest of Darwin's paragraph: Reason tells me, that... | |
 | A. B. Lever - 2007 - 334 pages
...eyes, our ears and hearts. However Darwin did not recognise that in his time. Yet he had admitted, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." This was from the horse's mouth. How did Darwin's Theory gain the credibility it had? It is a commonly... | |
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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,... 
