...surely a wise creator would have used a more sensible arrangement. On the other hand, Darwin admitted: "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Still Darwin believed that evolution could have done it, and therefore evolution...

...create reality. Scientifically, the eye is just as wondrous. To Charles Darwin (1859, p 133), the notion that "the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...could have been formed by natural selection, seems . . . absurd in the highest degree." But as Darwin argued at least as well if not as succinctly, biology...

...perfection like the eye. Darwin freely confessed that it seemed absurd that the human eye, with all its contrivances for adjusting the focus to different...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection. We should remember that every one of the intermediate steps in its development would need to be better...

..."organs of extreme perfection and complication, in particular, the eye." He starts with an apology: To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...distances, for admitting different amounts of light, s Browne adds that this device is constant in Darwin's work; it seems to us especially conspicuous...

...that were co-opted for new uses. As Darwin noted in a famous passage from the book's second edition: To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...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...

...intricate design could come about through natural selection and did not require divine intervention. To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...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 Darwin said, "The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder. To suppose that the eye, with all of its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."52 Darwin wrote these words long before modern science began to understand the deeper...

...organisms "organs of extreme perfection and complication" and, in illustration, marveled at the human eye, "with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting...and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration."1 The eye, of course, is merely one of many examples of such "perfection and complication."...

...evolution of vision concerned Darwin (1872, Ch. VI): Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...distances, for admitting different amounts of light and for correcting spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seem, I...

...that the eye is the sort of thing that appears to have been formed in one act of design or creation: To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances...different distances, for admitting different amounts of 23. Darwin 1958, pp. 167-168. light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration,...