(April 22, 2014 at 11:20 pm)Revelation777 Wrote:(April 21, 2014 at 8:49 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Strange coincidence.
We were watching a NOVA documentary on Darwin and what he didn't know last night.
Posit was that ALL four limbed creatures are descended from Tiktaalik. And all I could think of was "oh the irony that xtians have a fish as a symbol"
You know what is ironic as well, Darwin did not deny that there was a God! In fact, in his sixth addition of Origin he refers to the Creator.
One of best-known criticisms of natural selection was that nothing as complicated as an eye could have evolved purely by chance. Darwin's response was that we can observe many examples of the evolution of light-sensitive cells in nature. The most intriguing thought Darwin had on this subject was that just because we don't understand how something can evolve does not mean that the Creator wasn't behind it. His exact words in the sixth edition of Origin were "Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?"[v]. Using the telescope as an example of a man-made optical instrument, he added: "May we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to man?"
reference
Charles Darwin. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Sixth Edition, With Additions and Corrections to 1872. London: John Murray, 1876.
Darwin never said that there was not a Creator. And he never said that the Creator didn't create life.
So? Quote mining Darwin doesn't disprove his theory. Darwin was agnostic.
And we know how the eye evolved.
Trying to use the "complicated eye" fallacy has been debunked thoroughly.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"