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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: Guess ew said that?
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 16:32:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 16:32:26 1985
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> 
> 
> > 'ere's a quote:
> > 
> > 	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, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.
> > 
> 
> Ew said that?  It was Charles Darwin, as quoted in _What Darwin Really Said_,
> pp. 48,49 (by Benjamin Farrington, New York: Schocken Books, 1982).
> 
> 
> Jake O'sHonesty

If that's the complete quote as given in *What Darwin Really Said*, then
I would consider it a pretty unreliable source of what Darwin really 
thought.

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
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