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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Guess ew said that?
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 14:46:13 EDT
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>> '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?

I found it!  It's in a little-known work by a 19th-century English
biologist, Charles Darwin, called *On the Origin of Species*.
Although from the quotation above he was obviously not an
evolutionist, a lot of what Darwin says (to judge from skimming
through the book) is strikingly similar to some of what the
evolutionists in net.origins have been saying.  Quite remarkable,
given the early date of publication (1859).  Does anyone have any
more info about this guy?  

Jake me boy, be a fine lad and send me my prize if I was the first to
submit a correct answer.

Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes