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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: Guess ew said that?
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Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 21:05:04 EDT
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By the way, the quote at the end of this article is from 
Darwin.

Lest anyone feel that Darwin felt that the Eye was designed,
Darwin also wrote (in a letter to Asa Grey, May 22, 1860):

"With respect to the theological view of the question...This is
always painful to me.  I am bewildered.  I had no intention to
write atheistically, but I own that I cannot see as plainly
as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and
beneficence on all sides of us.  There seems to me too much
misery in the world.  I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent
and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae
with the express intention of their feeding within the living 
bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat would play with mice.  Not
believing this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye
was exressly designed."

So, shall we cut out this crap?

Quote follows:

> 'ello to me friends of net.oorigins!  Jake O'sHonesty 'ere.  Oy've bean loik a
> mouse the last few months -- quiet, but always 'ere lis'nin.  Just thawt Oy'd
> speak up fer a moment to odd a litt'l spice to this untirin' discussion.
> 
> '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)

-- 
"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)
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