Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Guess ew said that? Message-ID: <580@utastro.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 16:32:26 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.580 Posted: Tue Aug 20 16:32:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:23:56 EDT References: <2527@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 29 > > > > '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-% Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)