 | Henry Wentworth Acland - 1865 - Страниц: 100
...accounts for the structure of the Eye not by Chance but by Natural Selection. " To suppose," he says, " that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - 1865 - Страниц: 380
...ablest of the advocates of the Development Theory will clearly show. " To suppose," says Mr. Darwin, " that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...selection 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... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - Страниц: 252
...ablest of the advocates of the development theory will clearly show. " To suppose," says Mr Darwin, " that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...selection, 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... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - 1865 - Страниц: 346
...ablest of the advocates of the Development Theory will clearly show. " To suppose," says Mr. Darwin, " that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...focus to different distances, for admitting different DE VEL OPMENT THE ORY. 141 amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration,... | |
 | Paul Janet - 1866 - Страниц: 216
...instruments. As we have already stated, he is, himself, frightened by the task he has undertaken. " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Eeason ought to conquer imagination ; though I have felt the difficulty far too keenly to be surprised... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 1118
...any explanation by Natural Selection. With regard to the former, Mr. Darwin thus expresses himself:* "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin — and fails. The reason is obvious... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - Страниц: 668
...diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks. 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 degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
 | 1866 - Страниц: 870
...possessor, and hence the difficulty of supposing this to be the true history of the matter is not real ! The inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...distances, for admitting different amounts of light, for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, are all on the imaginary road from a bit... | |
 | 1866 - Страниц: 570
...and hence the difli'.-ulty of supposing this to be the true history of the matter is not real ! The inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...distances, for admitting different amounts of light, for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, are all on the imaginary road from a bit... | |
 | Paul Janet - 1867 - Страниц: 214
...instruments. As we have already stated, he is, himself, frightened by the task he has undertaken. " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Reason ought to conquer imagination ; though I have felt the difficulty far too keenly to be surprised... | |
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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,... 
