Gary Marcus, professor of psychology at New York University and author of “Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind”, in the Opinion section of Wall Street Journal February 11, 2009 writes, “Neither evolution nor Darwin ever promised anything like perfection.”

 Yet, in percieving perfection in nature, Darwin wrote, “the belief that an organ so perfect as the eye could have been formed by natural selection is enough to stagger any one.” Darwin suggested, “There is no logical impossibility in the acquirement of any conceivable degree of perfection through natural selection.”

 Marcus may have been confused, since Darwin was confused had contradicted himself by writing in The Origin of Species, “Natural selection will not produce absolute perfection, nor do we always meet, as far as we can judge, with this high standard under nature.”