 | 1867 - Страниц: 524
...is to construct an eye without skill in optics ! " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 806
...absurdity to attempt to account for its production on his theory of natural selection* There is mechanism for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, for correcting spherical aberration and chromatic aberration, and all the imperfections incident to... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - Страниц: 550
...of a visual apparatus. On this Mr. Darwin writes, ' To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances ' for adjusting the focus to different...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible ' degree.' In this we most cordially acquiesce ; and yet it is necessary for the stability... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 584
...crucial test of the eye. Mr. Darwin himself says : — ' To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.' But if he thinks the facts of Nature so strong for design — if he thinks there... | |
 | sir William Withey Gull (1st bart.) - 1870 - Страниц: 60
...ultimately unveiling their mystery. " To suppose," says Darwin,* " that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations, from a perfect and complex eye to... | |
 | Charles Joseph Parker - 1870 - Страниц: 204
...from Final Causes — the eye — Mr. Darwin says : " To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...Selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."1 So it does seem absurd at first sight, in the same way that a self-formed watch would have... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1873 - Страниц: 326
...it to be apparently ' in the highest degree absurd to suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection.' For since, as he proceeds unanswerably to argue, ' numerous gradations, from an imperfect and simple... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - Страниц: 412
...speculation, as when he says, concerning the eye, — ' To suppose that the eye, with its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.' Bat he soon returns to his new wantonness of conjecture, and, without the shadow... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1874 - Страниц: 190
...inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different degrees of light, and for the correction of spherical and...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." (p. 222) Nevertheless he attempts to explain the process. " It is scarcely possible," he says, " to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - Страниц: 504
...^ Oryam of extreme Perfection and Complication. f' To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first kaid that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the... | |
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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,... 
