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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, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.

  Speaker: Charles Darwin
  Source: The Origin of Species, John Murray, London, 1859 (http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html)
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  Posted: 06 Jul 2009 at 8:23 AM
  Posted By: dirid51
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  Tags: creationism, evolution, natural-selection

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• I enjoy reading the leaflets that come with medication, the respite provided by the precision of each technical term, which convey the illusion of meticulousness and a frisson of simplicity, and elicit a spatiotemporal dimension free of any striving for beauty, creative angst or the never-ending and hopeless aspiration to attain the sublime.

  Speaker: Muriel Barbery
  Source: the Elegance of the Hedgehog
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  Posted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:35 AM
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