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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Does "he" refer to the "Darwin"?
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climb, but on the other side is a gentle slope to the summit. On the
summit sits a complex device such as an eye or a bacterial flagellar
motor. The absurd notion that such complexity could
spontaneously self-assemble is symbolized by leaping from the foot
of the cliff to the top in one bound. Evolution, by contrast, goes
around the back of the mountain and creeps up the gentle slope to
the summit: easy! The principle of climbing the gentle slope as
opposed to leaping up the precipice is so simple, one is tempted to
marvel that it took so long for a Darwin to arrive on the scene and
discover it. By the time he did, nearly three centuries had elapsed
since Newton's annus mirabilis, although his achievement seems,
on the face of it, harder than Darwin's.
climb, but on the other side is a gentle slope to the summit. On the
summit sits a complex device such as an eye or a bacterial flagellar
motor. The absurd notion that such complexity could
spontaneously self-assemble is symbolized by leaping from the foot
of the cliff to the top in one bound. Evolution, by contrast, goes
around the back of the mountain and creeps up the gentle slope to
the summit: easy! The principle of climbing the gentle slope as
opposed to leaping up the precipice is so simple, one is tempted to
marvel that it took so long for a Darwin to arrive on the scene and
discover it. By the time he did, nearly three centuries had elapsed
since Newton's annus mirabilis, although his achievement seems,
on the face of it, harder than Darwin's.
Top answer
Yes.
- Yes.
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