...admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection, seems,...freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.' How readily explicable is this great central fact of nature on the common theory! Again, 'Why does...

...retina has 137, 000,000 light sensitive cells. Charles Darwin himself said, "To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." So if a man cannot begin to make a human eye, then how could anyone in his right mind think...

...work of a Maker. As Darwin wrote: 'to suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree'.6 He confessed to Asa Gray that 'the eye to this day gives me a cold shudder'7 But he conquered...

...eye, with its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest...

...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." Still Darwin believed that evolution could have done it, and therefore evolution is valid. Because...

...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.1 Nevertheless, Darwin went on to explain to his readers that the impression of absurdity was...

...438). 9 See, eg, Darwin 1859, pp. 29, 103, 174, 190-192, 193, 195-197, 198-205, 306, 354, 407, 460. and for the correction of spherical and chromatic...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. He then enumerates the conditions under which this staggering difficulty could be overcome:...

...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...could have been formed by natural selection, seems . . . absurd in the highest degree." But as Darwin argued at least as well if not as succinctly, biology...

...human eye, with all its contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...aberration, could have been formed by natural selection. We should remember that every one of the intermediate steps in its development would need to be better...

...with all of its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."52 Darwin wrote these words long before modern science began to understand the deeper chemical...