Ichneumonidae

In a letter to Asa Gray, he wrote: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living body of caterpillars."

Behe 2009

In other places, he did, however, assert an opinion or two about his a-telic view of particular biological forms: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice."

Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose? 2008

In a letter to Asa Gray, he wrote: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living body of caterpillars".

Behe: ID rescues Common Descent 2007

In a letter to Asa Gray, he wrote: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living body of caterpillars".

Behe: ID rescues Common Descent 2007

The way that the larvae devoured their host from the inside was so awful that Darwin once wrote of them, “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae one group of parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Darwin believed that the Ichneumonidae could not have been designed by a specifically "beneficent and omnipotent God" (note the adjectives), but there is nothing to suggest that he rejected the possibility of a designer altogether on that basis.

Behe Responds 2007

In a letter to Asa Gray, he wrote: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living body of caterpillars."

Behe Responds 2007

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.

Behe Responds 2007

Behe: In a letter to Asa Gray, he wrote: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living body of caterpillars."

Behe Responds 2007

In a letter to Asa Gray, he wrote: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living body of caterpillars."

Behe Responds 2007