| George van Driem - 2001 - Страниц: 496
...half-formed stages. The miracle of the eye is an often cited example, a problem already addressed by Darwin: To suppose 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... | |
| Peter A. Ensminger - 2008 - Страниц: 288
...115-26. Hecht, S., et al. (1942) Energy, quanta, and vision. Journal of General Physiology 25, 819-40. To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. — Charles Darwin So begins a famous passage entitled "Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication"... | |
| Theodore Roszak - 2001 - Страниц: 388
...eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjustmg the focus to different distances, for admittmg different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. Still, he perseveres in the effort, suggesting that we must suppose that there is a power,... | |
| Paul W. Glimcher - 2004 - Страниц: 404
...achieved by natural selection. As Darwin put it with regard to the very problem Marr would later address: To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. (Darwin, 1859) Nonetheless, the eye does exist, and it does seem in many ways to capture light in a... | |
| Charles Darwin - 2003 - Страниц: 676
...diving thrushes, and petrels with the habits of auks. Organs of extreme perfection and complication, — To suppose 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... | |
| Werner Gitt, K. H. Vanheiden - 2001 - Страниц: 130
...impossible by none other than Charles Darwin. He wrote about the subject in his book 'Origin of Species': "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Every individual part of the eye can only enable sight in the presence of all other parts... | |
| Asa Mahan - 2003 - Страниц: 493
...confessions as the following are here and there wrung out of our scientist. 'To suppose that the eye, with its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest... | |
| Asa Mahan - 2003 - Страниц: 494
...admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection, seems,...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.' How readily explicable is this great central fact of nature on the common theory! Again, 'Why does... | |
| Cristina E. Rodriguez - 2003 - Страниц: 266
...retina has 137, 000,000 light sensitive cells. Charles Darwin himself said, "To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." So if a man cannot begin to make a human eye, then how could anyone in his right mind think... | |
| Adam Zeman - 2004 - Страниц: 420
...work of a Maker. As Darwin wrote: 'to suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree'.6 He confessed to Asa Gray that 'the eye to this day gives me a cold shudder'7 But he conquered... | |
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