Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax4.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!hopeful From: hopeful@fluke.UUCP (Jake O'sHonesty) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Guess ew said that? Message-ID: <2527@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 12:15:01 EDT Article-I.D.: vax4.2527 Posted: Fri Aug 16 12:15:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 05:10:41 EDT Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 16 > '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