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To: js1138
I'm quite certain that Darwin would have been thrilled to learn about the mechanisms of inheritance, and to learn that there is an observable process for generating the tiny changes in the bloodline that his theory required.

Charles Darwin himself realized that it seemed incredible that evolutionary processes had to explain human vision. He said:

‘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.’Link

The problems Darwin already had with his own theory would have been further realized if he had modern technology.

If Darwin knew that the individual cells that make up the eye were far more sophisticated than anything he imagined (can be compared to the mechanisms present at a space shuttle production facility), he would have fell off the fence on the side of Creation.

1,484 posted on 03/08/2003 11:24:40 AM PST by bondserv
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To: bondserv
Charles Darwin himself realized that it seemed incredible that evolutionary processes had to explain human vision.

Unfortunately, you are getting your information from a creationist website, run by deceitful charlatans. That "eye" quote from Darwin is one of the best-known examples of fraudulent "quote-mining." This sort of dishonesty is a big part of the creationist bag of shabby tricks. Here's a website which explains the fraud to which you've innocently fallen victim, and it gives the full text of Darwin's statement, which shows that Darwin's thinking was actually the opposite of what the lying creationoid filth have told you:
An Old, Out of Context, Quotation.

1,485 posted on 03/08/2003 11:52:11 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas)
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To: bondserv
My post 1485 had a lot of strong adjectives in it. I hope you understand that I wasn't using them to insult you. Rather, my anger is aimed at the dishonest creationist websites that knowingly post false and misleading material. I believe that you are an innocent victim of those people. Far too many good Christians are led astray by such dishonorable tactics. The creationist websites know just what they're doing, because their out-of-context quotes and their other errors have been exposed for years. But they keep on pumping out the same tired old lies. There is no excuse for their conduct. I think they may be in league with the Ol' Deceiver.
1,487 posted on 03/08/2003 1:51:09 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas)
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