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- To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
- On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
- 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 question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects…
- If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would…
- But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower…
- I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what…
- As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so…
- I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have…
- Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of…
- After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a…
- 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 belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the…
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