CHARLES DARWIN COULD NEVER TEXT A MESSAGE TO TWITTER

As you all know, there's currently a heated debate
in the sci news groups about what Charles Darwin really
said about the evolution of the eye whle atheists everywhere
are raising glasses on the 200th annivesary of his birth.

It's time this matter is cleared up -- simply and concisely --
once and for all.

Actually, I thought I had ended all the confusion back on
Saturday, May 11, 1996, when a pseudo named Michael
Clark accused me of misquoting Darwin. He had the balls
to say I used only a portion of Darwin's quote.

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Here's what I wrote:

``To suppose that the eye (with so many parts all working
together) . . . could have been formed by natural selection
seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."

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Here's what Charles Darwin really 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. 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,

(Wake me when it's over) Z Z Z Z Z Z Z z z z z z z . . .

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. How a nerve comes
to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how
life itself

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originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest
organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable
of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain
sensitive elements in their barcode should become aggregated
and developed into nerves, endowed with this special
sensibility."

Charles Darwin, 1859, "Origin of Species"

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I thought I said what Darwin had said but David Ian Greig
said what I said wasn't what Darwin really had said because
he said Darwin had more to say than what I said he had
said, then Steve Vickers of the UK butts in and says HE
knows what Darwin really said, claiming what I said he
had said wasn't what Darwin really had said, so I said,
'Okay, I'll say what they say about what Darwin really said,
since I suppose that this is indeed what he had said, even
though I really don't know for sure if he had said it, but
this is whatthey say he had said."

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Nice little song and dance, there, Zippy. Can you
balance a ball on your nose? -- Michael Clark

Up your's, Bumblebrain!

Folks, please excuse the rude interruption!

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Actually, it really doesn't matter what Darwin had said
or what these fellas said he had said -- or what they say
I said or didn't say about what he said or didn't say --
since what I said, whether Darwin said it or not, isn't
something that really needed to be said. Perhaps Darwin
said what they say he had said because he felt he had to
say it -- he certainly was entitled to say what he wanted
to say. But by saying what they say he had said, he actually
said more than he needed to say, so maybe he didn't have
to say what he said. 'Course, IF Darwin did say what these
fellas said he had said, critics could later say Charlie
had nothing to say even though he had said it.

Ed Conrad
http://www.edconrad.com

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