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CHARLES DARWIN EATS HIS WORDS
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Author: caspar.milquetoast123
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:11
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<
(This is the second in a 17,432-part series that is
re-posting the commentary of one Ed Conrad, now currently mentally
incapacitated after selling his brain
on eBay.)
<
    WHAT CHARLIE DARWIN REALLY SAID...
<
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.
<
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.
<
======================================
<
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."
<
======================================
<
Here's what Charles Darwin actually 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
<
> Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z z z z z z z . . .
<
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"
<
=============================
<
I thought I said what Darwin had said but David Ian Greig
of talk.origins said what I said wasn't what Darwin really  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 what they say he had said."
<
====================================
<
<< 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!
<
=====================================
<
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
<
==============================
<
TRUTH VS. MONUMENTAL LIE OF MAN'S EVOLUTION
(Fossils -- SOME HUMAN -- Found Between Coal Veins)
<
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/FINGERSx.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/OldestHumanSkull.JPG
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/z11calv.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/skullb.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/z8femur.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/FOSSILS08/HumanFemur.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/TestResults.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Skullx.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Skully,jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/SkullBoulderSide.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/GallBladder1.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/GallBladder2.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/FirstDiscovery.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/HumanBrain.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/newtibia.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/zedjaw.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/HumanJaw3.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/OldestTool.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/MoreFossils.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/InSlate3.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/InSlate2.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/InSlate11.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Fetus8.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Scorpion.jpg
http://www.edconrad.com/pics/PetrifiedPP.jpg
<
================================
<
HOW SCIENCE KAYOS PSUEDOSCIENCE
   Three Cheers for Lin Liangtai of Taiwan
<
Liangtai's Web Site
http://groups.google.com/group/idfossil?hl=en
<
CALVARIUM REPORT
http://groups.google.com/group/idfossil/web/new-calvarium-article?hl=en
<
FEMUR REPORT
http://groups.google.com/group/idfossil/web/femur-article?hl=en
<
V-SHAPED COAL VEINS
     (Where mind-boggling, evolution-destroying fossils were
discovered)
<
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=22&f=1472383101&p=61
<
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=22&f=1472392315&p=62
<
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=22&f=1472383097&p=63
<
================================
<
Article 1 of the 17,432-part series
<
ED CONRAD GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.geology/msg/beff4f55ac10acd5
<
================================
<
> TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD
   Rank     Name   Country
1 Harvard University USA
2 University of Oxford UK
3 University of Cambridge UK
4 Stanford University USA
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
6 University of California, Berkeley USA
7 California Institute of Technology USA
8 Princeton University USA
9 Yale University USA
10 University of Chicago USA
11 Columbia University USA
12 University of California, San Diego USA
13 Cornell University USA
14 University of California, Los Angeles USA
15 University Pennsylvania USA
16 University of Wisconsin, Madison USA
17 University of Washington, Seattle USA
18 Tokyo University Japan
19 University of California, San Francisco USA
20 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA
21 Kyoto University Japan
22 Imperial College London UK
23 Johns Hopkins University USA
24 University of Toronto Canada
25 University College London UK
26 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA
27 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Switzerland
28 Washington University, St. Louis USA
29 New York University USA
30 Duke University USA
31 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities USA
32 Northwestern University USA
33 Rockefeller University USA
34 University of Colorado, Boulder USA
35 University of California, Santa Barbara USA
36 University of British Columbia Canada
37 University of Maryland, College Park USA
38 Utrecht University Netherlands
39 University of Texas, Austin USA
40 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center USA
41 Pennsylvania State University, University Park USA
42 University of California, Davis USA
43 Vanderbilt University USA
44 University of California, Irvine USA
45 University of Paris 06 France
46 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh USA
47 University of Southern California USA
48 Rutgers State University, New Brunswick USA
49 University of Manchester UK
50 Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden
51 University of Munich Germany
52 Technical University of Munich Germany
53 University of Florida USA
54 University of Edinburgh UK
55 Australian National University Australia
56 Carnegie Mellon University USA
57 University of Copenhagen Denmark
58 University of Zurich Switzerland
59 Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel
60 Osaka University Japan
61 McGill University Canada
62 University of Bristol UK
63 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill USA
64 Uppsala University Sweden
65 Ohio State University, Columbus USA
66 University of Paris 11 France
67 University of Sheffield UK
68 University of Heidelberg Germany
69 University of Oslo Norway
70 Case Western Reserve University USA
71 Moscow State University Russia
72 University of Leiden Netherlands
73 Purdue University, West Lafayette USA
74 University of Helsinki Finland
75 University of Rochester USA
76 University of Melbourne Australia
77 Tohoku University Japan
78 University of Nottingham UK
79 University of Arizona USA
80 Michigan State University USA
81 King's College London UK
82 Boston University USA
83 University of Basel Switzerland
84 Stockholm University Sweden
85 Brown University USA
86 University of Goettingen Germany
87 Rice University USA
88 Texas A&M University, College Station USA
89 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
90 University of Birmingham UK
91 University of Utah USA
92 University of Freiburg Germany
93 McMaster University Canada
94 Nagoya University Japan
95 University of Iowa USA
96 University of Strasbourg France
97 Ecole Normale Super Paris France
98 Indiana University, Bloomington USA
99 Arizona State University, Tempe USA
100 University of Rome La Sapienza  Italy
Re: CHARLES DARWIN EATS HIS WORDS
#3991
Author: Androcles
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:26
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*plonk*

Do not reply to this generic message, it was automatically generated;
you have been kill-filed, either for being boringly stupid, repetitive,
unfunny, ineducable, repeatedly posting politics, religion or off-topic
subjects to a sci. newsgroup, attempting free advertising, because
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Boringly stupid is the most common cause of kill-filing, but because
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This should not trouble you, many of those plonked find it a blessing
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<caspar.milquetoast123@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:46391492-8c18-4aa1-a8ab-bfdf1da8b2d2@t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com...
> <
> (This is the second in a 17,432-part series that is
> re-posting the commentary of one Ed Conrad, now currently mentally
> incapacitated after selling his brain
> on eBay.)
> <
>    WHAT CHARLIE DARWIN REALLY SAID...
> <
> 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.
> <
> 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.
> <
> ======================================
> <
> 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."
> <
> ======================================
> <
> Here's what Charles Darwin actually 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
> <
>> Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z z z z z z z . . .
> <
> 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"
> <
> =============================
> <
> I thought I said what Darwin had said but David Ian Greig
> of talk.origins said what I said wasn't what Darwin really  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 what they say he had said."
> <
> ====================================
> <
> << 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!
> <
> =====================================
> <
> 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
> <
> ==============================
> <
> TRUTH VS. MONUMENTAL LIE OF MAN'S EVOLUTION
> (Fossils -- SOME HUMAN -- Found Between Coal Veins)
> <
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/FINGERSx.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/OldestHumanSkull.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/z11calv.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/skullb.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/z8femur.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/FOSSILS08/HumanFemur.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/TestResults.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Skullx.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Skully,jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/SkullBoulderSide.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/GallBladder1.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/GallBladder2.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/FirstDiscovery.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/HumanBrain.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/newtibia.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/zedjaw.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/HumanJaw3.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/OldestTool.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/MoreFossils.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/InSlate3.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/InSlate2.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/InSlate11.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Fetus8.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/Scorpion.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/pics/PetrifiedPP.jpg
> <
> ================================
> <
> HOW SCIENCE KAYOS PSUEDOSCIENCE
>   Three Cheers for Lin Liangtai of Taiwan
> <
> Liangtai's Web Site
> http://groups.google.com/group/idfossil?hl=en
> <
> CALVARIUM REPORT
> http://groups.google.com/group/idfossil/web/new-calvarium-article?hl=en
> <
> FEMUR REPORT
> http://groups.google.com/group/idfossil/web/femur-article?hl=en
> <
> V-SHAPED COAL VEINS
>     (Where mind-boggling, evolution-destroying fossils were
> discovered)
> <
> http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=22&f=1472383101&p=61
> <
> http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=22&f=1472392315&p=62
> <
> http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=22&f=1472383097&p=63
> <
> ================================
> <
> Article 1 of the 17,432-part series
> <
> ED CONRAD GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.geology/msg/beff4f55ac10acd5
> <
> ================================
> <
>> TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD
>   Rank     Name   Country
> 1 Harvard University USA
> 2 University of Oxford UK
> 3 University of Cambridge UK
> 4 Stanford University USA
> 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
> 6 University of California, Berkeley USA
> 7 California Institute of Technology USA
> 8 Princeton University USA
> 9 Yale University USA
> 10 University of Chicago USA
> 11 Columbia University USA
> 12 University of California, San Diego USA
> 13 Cornell University USA
> 14 University of California, Los Angeles USA
> 15 University Pennsylvania USA
> 16 University of Wisconsin, Madison USA
> 17 University of Washington, Seattle USA
> 18 Tokyo University Japan
> 19 University of California, San Francisco USA
> 20 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA
> 21 Kyoto University Japan
> 22 Imperial College London UK
> 23 Johns Hopkins University USA
> 24 University of Toronto Canada
> 25 University College London UK
> 26 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA
> 27 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Switzerland
> 28 Washington University, St. Louis USA
> 29 New York University USA
> 30 Duke University USA
> 31 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities USA
> 32 Northwestern University USA
> 33 Rockefeller University USA
> 34 University of Colorado, Boulder USA
> 35 University of California, Santa Barbara USA
> 36 University of British Columbia Canada
> 37 University of Maryland, College Park USA
> 38 Utrecht University Netherlands
> 39 University of Texas, Austin USA
> 40 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center USA
> 41 Pennsylvania State University, University Park USA
> 42 University of California, Davis USA
> 43 Vanderbilt University USA
> 44 University of California, Irvine USA
> 45 University of Paris 06 France
> 46 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh USA
> 47 University of Southern California USA
> 48 Rutgers State University, New Brunswick USA
> 49 University of Manchester UK
> 50 Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden
> 51 University of Munich Germany
> 52 Technical University of Munich Germany
> 53 University of Florida USA
> 54 University of Edinburgh UK
> 55 Australian National University Australia
> 56 Carnegie Mellon University USA
> 57 University of Copenhagen Denmark
> 58 University of Zurich Switzerland
> 59 Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel
> 60 Osaka University Japan
> 61 McGill University Canada
> 62 University of Bristol UK
> 63 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill USA
> 64 Uppsala University Sweden
> 65 Ohio State University, Columbus USA
> 66 University of Paris 11 France
> 67 University of Sheffield UK
> 68 University of Heidelberg Germany
> 69 University of Oslo Norway
> 70 Case Western Reserve University USA
> 71 Moscow State University Russia
> 72 University of Leiden Netherlands
> 73 Purdue University, West Lafayette USA
> 74 University of Helsinki Finland
> 75 University of Rochester USA
> 76 University of Melbourne Australia
> 77 Tohoku University Japan
> 78 University of Nottingham UK
> 79 University of Arizona USA
> 80 Michigan State University USA
> 81 King's College London UK
> 82 Boston University USA
> 83 University of Basel Switzerland
> 84 Stockholm University Sweden
> 85 Brown University USA
> 86 University of Goettingen Germany
> 87 Rice University USA
> 88 Texas A&M University, College Station USA
> 89 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
> 90 University of Birmingham UK
> 91 University of Utah USA
> 92 University of Freiburg Germany
> 93 McMaster University Canada
> 94 Nagoya University Japan
> 95 University of Iowa USA
> 96 University of Strasbourg France
> 97 Ecole Normale Super Paris France
> 98 Indiana University, Bloomington USA
> 99 Arizona State University, Tempe USA
> 100 University of Rome La Sapienza  Italy
>
> 
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