Comments on: Blind Salamanders and Creationism http://oconallstreet.com/2008/07/22/blind-salamanders-and-creationism/ Borderless thoughts on Public Relations, Public Affairs and anything else that matters from Conall McDevitt, MD of Weber Shandwick in Northern Ireland Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:12:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Fergus http://oconallstreet.com/2008/07/22/blind-salamanders-and-creationism/#comment-3247 Fergus Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:03:10 +0000 http://oconallstreet.com/?p=399#comment-3247 Connall, you quote Darwin "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." This is used by creationists as they claim it shows even Darwin din't accept Darwinism. Actually, as pointed out by Colin Blakemore at a lecture at Nottingham University recently Darwin went on to say that such a "perfect" organ could evolve through intermediate stages each of which had a utility, and therefore were favoured by natural selection. Biologists just don't see this as a problem at all. Hitchens point is interesting too. Connall, you quote Darwin “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.” This is used by creationists as they claim it shows even Darwin din’t accept Darwinism. Actually, as pointed out by Colin Blakemore at a lecture at Nottingham University recently Darwin went on to say that such a “perfect” organ could evolve through intermediate stages each of which had a utility, and therefore were favoured by natural selection. Biologists just don’t see this as a problem at all.

Hitchens point is interesting too.

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