Nor would any man in his senses think the existence of the watch, with its various machinery, accounted for, by being told that it was one out of possible combinations of material forms, that whatever he had found in the place where he found the watch must have contained some internal configuration or other, and that his configuration might be the structure now exhibited, viz. of the works of a watch, as well as a different structure.
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"To suppose that the eye.. could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree". Charles Darwin in Origin of the Species" 1859
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THE PUZZLE OF PERFECTION:
The intuitive feeling that pure chance could never have achieved the degree of complexity and ingenuity so ubiquitous in nature has been a continuing source of skepticism ever since the publication of the Origin of the Species; and throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims...
-- from Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
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