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    EDITOR'S NOTE: Beginning today and continuing
until April 6, 2017, Google will pay tribute to the late,
great Ed Conrad by re-publishing one of his countless
postings on a daily basis (even Sundays).
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    Today's re-run in entitled, "BOY, CHARLIE DARWIN
REALLY SAID A MOUTHFUL."

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This rare colorized photo shows Charles Darwin taking
a dip off the Galápagos Islands during a relaxing
break while writing his book "Origin of Species."
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As we all know, there's currently a heated debate
on Fox News and in the sci news groups about what
Charles Darwin REALLY said about the evolution
of the eye.
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It's time this matter is cleared up -- simply and
concisely -- once and for all.
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(Actually, I thought I had ended all the confusion back
on Saturday, May 11, 1996, when a pseudo-scientist
named Michael Clark accused me of misquoting Darwin.
He had the balls to say I used only a portion of
Charlie's quote.)
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Here's what I said that Darwin said:
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"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:
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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,
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, 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 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 barecode 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 Iain
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 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.
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Nice little song and dance, there, Zippy. Can you
balance a ball on your nose?     -- Michael Clark
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UP YOUR'S, Bumble Brain!
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(Folks, please excuse the 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 -- since what
I said, whether Darwin said it or not, isn't something
that really had to be said. Perhaps Darwin said
what he 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. Of course, IF
Darwin DID SAY what these fella said he had said,
critics could later say he had nothing to say even
though he had said it.

Ed Conrad
Penn State grad (cum laude) -- Clear, Concise Journalism
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MAN AS OLD AS COAL
http://www.edconrad.com
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MAKING A MONKEY OUT OF EVOLUTIONISTS
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sci.physics/msg/194e55e1d5d6b724
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DEATH DOES NOT EXIST
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ONE BAD APPLE CAN SPOIL THE WHOLE BARREL
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HIDE YOUR HEAD IN SHAME, FELLAS!
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Thanks, guys!
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