Interesting statement....

[SecondzAway]

"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."-Charles Darwin

.....I don't really have much to say either way about Darwin, or his beliefs, but this is an interesting statement nevertheless.

 

[ThaG]

more interesting are the pages that follow explaining how the eye evolved:

you can read it yourself:

http://books.google.com/books?id=TCwLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=darwin&ei=E0bCRrOVCZPM6AKko7mPAg#PPA191,M1