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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Guess ew said that?
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:44:01 EDT
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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)