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Originally Posted by kazbates
Darwin confessed, "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."
There is a great deal in this world that defies explanation by the science that we know. I like to keep all my options open.
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Just in passing, later generations of scientists have developed a plausible explanation for the evolution of the eye by natural selection.
It's described, for example, in Dawkins' books ('The Selfish Gene' and/or 'The Blind Watchmaker' iirc).
Although, ironically, Dawkins is a good example of a scientist who seems to have lost his way (sadly).