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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: Sun, 11-Aug-85 10:44:03 EDT
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> 'ello to me friends of net.oorigins!  Jake O'sHonesty 'ere.  Oy've bean loik a
> mouse the last few months -- quiet, but always 'ere lis'nin.  Just thawt Oy'd
> speak up fer a moment to odd a litt'l spice to this untirin' discussion.
> 
> '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.
> 
> Guess ew said that?  Was he/she an Evolutionknight or a Creationknight?
> 
> 
> Sincerely yer fellow 'knight,
> 
> Jake O'sHonesty (care of Rod Foist)

It's probably by an evolutionist.
It's probably quoted out of context.
The poster probably won't have the guts to post the reference so
we can confirm these conjectures.

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

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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