Guess who said this?
Ummmm...Charlie?
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p. 133:
"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 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 of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory."
Sir, your parochial thinking prevents you from seeing anything
but what you think you should. Open your heart and your mind,
and you may see that Darwin gleaned a tiny bit of God's Plan.
It doesn't have to harm anyone's faith at all. I've seen much
more in the Bible to make me doubt it than anything in Darwin
that would make me doubt natural selection. When Preachers
keep up these absurd Taliban like positions they drive people
away from Churches in flocks