Christianity For Morons

Organs of extreme perfection and complication. 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 possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an 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, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound.In looking for the gradations by which an organ in any species has been perfected, we ought to look exclusively to its lineal ancestors; but this is scarcely ever possible, and we are forced in each case to look to species of the same group, that is to the collateral descendants from the same original parent-form, in order to see what gradations are possible, and for the chance of some gradations having been transmitted from the earlier stages of descent, in an unaltered or little altered condition. Amongst existing Vertebrata, we find but a small amount of gradation in the structure of the eye, and from fossil species we can learn nothing on this head. In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected....

desdamona writes:It is recorded in a statement supposedly made by Darwin himself, that the human eye had to be created by a creator. This is on the web site: 404 Not Found It seemed very reliable.

desdamona writes:again Lam,I ask you to show your evidence.

Lam writes:Please name some things you've witnessed in your life. Remember the part about introducing unsupported beliefs into a debate that I talked about?

Lam writes:If you have any real evidence, I'm all ears... or in this case all eyes.

Asgara writes:Thanks Sylas, I should have been more exacting in my reply to Des. Darwin did make the quote that is on that page, but no it doesn't say what Des claims it said.

Desdamona writes:DNA,to serve it's complete purpose,it must always be complete.
An incomplete DNA sequence cannot reorganize itself to a complete-
one.Therefore a DNA cannot evolve,because that requires it to be-
self conscious,a self conscious C,N,O and H molecules!
Thats not possible.
If we argue that a complex molecule like DNA can come into being,
by chance,then it's nothing short of a good laugh.

Afterward, he took everything apart and found small organic molecules such as monomers of proteins, the 20 amino acids required for life, several sugars, lipids, nucleotides that are monomers of DNA and RNA, and even ATP.