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*''"there is no difficulty in supposing that such links formerly existed"''<ref>{{cite book|title=Not by chance! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution|author=Lee Spetner|publisher=Judaica Press|year=1998|pages=84|isbn=978-1880-582244|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=29BGPwAACAAJ&dq=Spetner+not+by+chance&hl=en&sa=X&ei=G81xUa2dNdCQ4gTAhYFQ&redir_esc=y|quote=[Darwin 1872, pp. 182 ff.] From "there is no difficulty in supposing", he went on to lead the reader into agreeing that it ''probably'' happened, and finally he assumes the reader goes along with him in agreeing that it did indeed happen that way.}}</ref>

*''"there is no difficulty in supposing that such links formerly existed"''<ref>{{cite book|title=Not by chance! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution|author=Lee Spetner|publisher=Judaica Press|year=1998|pages=84|isbn=978-1880-582244|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=29BGPwAACAAJ&dq=Spetner+not+by+chance&hl=en&sa=X&ei=G81xUa2dNdCQ4gTAhYFQ&redir_esc=y|quote=[Darwin 1872, pp. 182 ff.] From "there is no difficulty in supposing", he went on to lead the reader into agreeing that it ''probably'' happened, and finally he assumes the reader goes along with him in agreeing that it did indeed happen that way.}}</ref>

:Darwin stated this in the first edition of ''"On The Origin of Species"'', but then omitted this story in other editions (emphasis Conservapedia):  

:Darwin stated this in the first edition of ''"On The Origin of Species"'', but then omitted this story in other editions (emphasis Conservapedia):  

*''"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 |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>  

*''"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>