| 1861 - 716 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. 16Y. Tet he screws Up his courage to face the difficulty. Here ia e whole T>roeess... | |
| 1860 - 600 pages
...he takes the eye, of which he writes : "To suppose that the eye with all its illimitable contrivance for adjusting the focus to different distances, for...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that if numerous grailntions from a perfect and complex eye, to... | |
| 1860 - 966 pages
...probability of there being fostililtroua rocks far below the Silurian, in a metamorphic condition. eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
| 1860 - 890 pages
...flight." This is a tolerable specimen of bold assumption; but what follows far surpasses it : — " 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,... | |
| 1860 - 612 pages
...to our quotation, the last that our decreasing space will allow us to give. "To suppose I lint ihe eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting...distances, for admitting different amounts of light, uiid for tin: correction of spherical nnd chromatic aberration could have been formed, by niiturnl... | |
| 1861 - 824 pages
...create perfect eyes as the Almighty himself has. Inasmuch as God has created eyes with all their " inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...correction of spherical and chromatic aberration," he holds there is no difficulty in believing natural selection can do it also; and by that he means... | |
| 1863 - 718 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...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic iberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
| Edward Garbett - 1864 - 592 pages
...time, the result to be so amazing as to be at first sight incredible ;* while another school only * "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, jeems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that of numerous... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...diving thrushes, and petrels with the habite of auks. Organs of extreme perfection and complication. — To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admiting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration,... | |
| William Lindsay Alexander - 1865 - 380 pages
...ablest of the advocates of the Development Theory will clearly show. " To suppose," says Mr. Darwin, " that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. Yet reason tells us that of numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect... | |
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