 | Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 페이지
...inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different degrees of light, and for the correction of spherical and...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." (p. 222) Nevertheless he attempts to explain the process. " It is scarcely possible," he says,... | |
 | London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1875 - 268 페이지
...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." ("Origin of Species," sixth ed., p. 143.) He however argues that, if numerous gradations from... | |
 | 1877 - 612 페이지
...eye, with all its admirable 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. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1877 - 600 페이지
...eye, with all its admirable 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. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
 | James Bowling Mozley - 1878 - 470 페이지
...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." But if he thinks the facts of Nature so strong for design — if he thinks there is such an enormous... | |
 | 1880 - 798 페이지
...with all its inimitable contrivances j:or adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin — and fails. The reason is obvious... | |
 | William Unsworth - 1881 - 384 페이지
...with all its inimitable contrivance 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." Dr. Elam adds : " Yet, having said so much, he makes the attempt to explain its origin — and fails.... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 페이지
...with all its INIMITABLE 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." He then proceeds to indicate some " probable " stages in the process by which, as he believes, the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 페이지
...inimSpeeies, itable contrivances for adjusting the focus page " ' to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 494 페이지
...with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction...natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd iu the highest degree. When it was first feaid that the sun stood still and the world turned round,... | |
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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,... 
