Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Guess ew said that? Message-ID: <972@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:44:01 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.972 Posted: Tue Aug 13 10:44:01 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:40:33 EDT References: <2514@vax4.fluke.UUCP>, <530@utastro.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 37 From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys), Message-ID:<530@utastro.UUCP>: >> '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. >-- > Bill Jefferys 8-% Getting a bit testy here, aren't we? I do believe Sir O'sHonesty *got* it from a posting to this newsgroup. I distinctly recall reading this quote here - and it was attributed to Darwin. I don't recall the exact refernence, however. Jeez, you people are so *serious*. -- --JB (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth) "Oh yeah, P.S., I, I feel, feel like, I am in a burning building And I gotta go." (Laurie Anderson)