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*''"In North America the black bear was seen . . . swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, '''I can see no difficulty''' in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."''<ref name="Darwin's whale">{{cite web |author=John L. Gittleman (Associate Professor of Zoology|title=Darwin Saw the Whale in the Black Bear |publisher=NYTimes.com/University of Tennessee Knoxville |date=May 16, 1994 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/16/opinion/l-darwin-saw-the-whale-in-the-black-bear-097454.html |accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref>

*''"In North America the black bear was seen . . . swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, '''I can see no difficulty''' in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."''<ref name="Darwin's whale">{{cite web |author=John L. Gittleman (Associate Professor of Zoology|title=Darwin Saw the Whale in the Black Bear |publisher=NYTimes.com/University of Tennessee Knoxville |date=May 16, 1994 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/16/opinion/l-darwin-saw-the-whale-in-the-black-bear-097454.html |accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref>

:Later however he nevertheless regretted his revision:

:Later however he nevertheless regretted his revision:

*''"I still maintain that '''there is no special difficulty''' in a bear's mouth being enlarged to any degree useful to its changing habits"''<ref name="Darwin's whale"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Darwin, F.; Seward, A.C. |title=More Letters of Charles Darwin |publisher=Appleton |place=New York |volume= 2 |year=1903 |pages=162}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Darwinism: the refutation of a myth |author=Søren Løvtrup |publisher=Croom Helm |year=1987 |page=87 |isbn=978-0709941538|url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=XSeVUoG4EMLiywP1hoGoDw&hl=sk&id=ByMUAQAAIAAJ&dq=there+is+no+special+difficulty+in+a+bear%27s+mouth&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=being+enlarged}}</ref>  

*''"I still maintain that '''there is no special difficulty''' in a bear's mouth being enlarged to any degree useful to its changing habits"''<ref name="Darwin's whale"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Darwin, F.; Seward, A.C. |title=More Letters of Charles Darwin |publisher=Appleton |place=New York |volume= 2 |year=1903 |pages=162}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Darwinism: the refutation of a myth |author=Søren Løvtrup |publisher=Croom Helm |year=1987 |pages=87 |isbn=978-0709941538|url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=XSeVUoG4EMLiywP1hoGoDw&hl=sk&id=ByMUAQAAIAAJ&dq=there+is+no+special+difficulty+in+a+bear%27s+mouth&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=being+enlarged}}</ref>  

Although it is not a fault to make such modest forms of expressions, they are in fact a formulae of a [[creed]] and not of a [[scientific theory]].<ref name="Hull"/>

Although it is not a fault to make such modest forms of expressions, they are in fact a formulae of a [[creed]] and not of a [[scientific theory]].<ref name="Hull"/>