...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. 7 Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?...

...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Charles Darwin "Organs of extreme perfection and complication" In The Origin of Species, 1859 Accurate...

...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. . . The belief that an organ as perfect as the eye could have formed by natural selection is more than...

...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely admit, absurd in the highest degree possible." Nevertheless, he concluded, that because there is "no...

...himself acknowledged, "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances . . . could have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."49 Given this background, discovery of "the master control gene" responsible for eye morphogenesis...

...Theory" states: "To suppose that the eye, with so many parts all working together . . . could have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Harvard's Richard Lewontin, an evolutionist, states that organisms "appear to have been carefully...

...eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjustmg the focus to different distances, for admittmg different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. Still, he perseveres in the effort, suggesting that we must suppose that there is a power,...

...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. — Charles Darwin So begins a famous passage entitled "Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication"...

...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. (Darwin, 1859) Nonetheless, the eye does exist, and it does seem in many ways to capture light in a...

...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Every individual part of the eye can only enable sight in the presence of all other parts...