Quote: 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, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.
2006-11-05 15:23:15 · 11 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Charles Darwin
2006-11-05 15:26:25 · answer #1 · answered by Mark Fidrater 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL!
now you're taking quotes completely out of context?
do you even realize that you are engaging in lies and deceit?
do you even care?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part2.html
Your lie is listed there.
Quote #2.8
[Re: Evolution is impossible]
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, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. - Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 1st Ed., p. 186.
The Talk.Origins Archive has two articles on this famous and flagrantly out-of-context eye quote: Evolution of the Eye and An Old, Out of Context Quotation. This quote as been used by many creationists, for example Creation Moments: Radio: The Deceptive Eye and An Overview of Intelligent Design. The Archive has the full text of what Darwin wrote online. Alternately try The Writings of Charles Darwin on the Web for full text of what Darwin wrote about this in the first edition or the sixth edition and use your browser's "find" feature to search for "absurd." Reading what Darwin wrote following the text the creationists quote mine clearly shows that Darwin did not in any way find the evolution of the eye absurd. Also see a creationist site lists the quote as an argument not to use saying that it is "subtly out of context."
- Mike Hopkins
2006-11-05 23:25:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Which is why evolution is tied quite tightly to my belief in God. What great being other than God can create such a beautiful and complex system that, by apparently a series of accidents and probability, has spit out something as wonderous as the eye?
It is all by God's will that evolution has happened, as is gravity, electronegativity, atomic particles, and quantum mechanics. Each of these are so wonderous and beautiful as to leave no doubt in *my* mind as to the existence of God.
2006-11-05 23:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds good to me.
Check an article about the evolution of the eye in the last National Geographic magazine.
2006-11-05 23:28:25 · answer #4 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like Charles Darwin to me.
2006-11-05 23:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Charlie Darwin said it. don't fall into the evo stuff man this world is too beautiful. God is the creator. Look at it this way. When you see a painting how do you know there was a painter? You just do, right. If you look around at this world you have to know there was a creator. God made everything beautiful. God Bless
2006-11-05 23:35:16 · answer #6 · answered by mikegwelch 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't know for sure, its quite possible that Mr Swenson said it in his book entitled MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
2006-11-05 23:28:20 · answer #7 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061101202258AAqpMD3&r=w&pa=AptqD2bwHTHf6OOAaKk3uxRUGogL8RID78Dft8NW97XR72F2khfr_wuRViXijeJ.aumNyvWULsusTg--
It's in voting right now. We were just talking about this yesterday. There were so many great explanations that instead of trying to explain them all I just gave you the link.
2006-11-05 23:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by Em 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh come on give me harder ones, Darwin of course.
2006-11-05 23:27:25 · answer #9 · answered by A_Geologist 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know but they have a very good point
2006-11-05 23:25:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋