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To: Right Wing Professor

This must by why Darwin himself said that he shudders to think of how his piecemeal evolution could explain the human eye.


28 posted on 05/19/2005 7:42:19 AM PDT by NVD
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To: NVD

"This must by why Darwin himself said that he shudders to think of how his piecemeal evolution could explain the human eye."

Except that... he went on to explain it. It would help if people using this quote would actually read what Darwin said, in total, instead of repeating only half of his statement.


34 posted on 05/19/2005 7:46:46 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman
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To: NVD
This must by why Darwin himself said that he shudders to think of how his piecemeal evolution could explain the human eye.

Darwin said nothing of the sort. He, in fact, dismissed objections of this type.

From the 6th edition of the Origin of Species

Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.

35 posted on 05/19/2005 7:47:39 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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This must by why Darwin himself said that he shudders to think of how his piecemeal evolution could explain the human eye.

Flaming misinformation alert! The "cold shudder" misquote is discussed, and totally debunked in another thread: post 14.

41 posted on 05/19/2005 7:51:19 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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