Page 171 - The Miracle of the Blood and Heart

Blood: The Incomparable
Liquid of Life

from Michael Behe, who has seen the extraordinary nature of
the blood-clotting mechanism and described it in full detail
countless times:
Professor Miller simply tries to use the term gene duplication as a
magic wand to make the problem go away, but the problem does not
go away. Miller's assertion that natural selection would favor each
additional step is made quite problematic by the fact that each step
in clotting has to be strictly regulated or else it is positively dan-
gerous... Miller's statement does not even say what the newly
duplicated proteases are envisioned to be acting on—whether the
tissue protease, the original mistargeted circulating protease, plas-
ma proteins, or everything at once.
Such a brief story is of no use at all in understanding how the irre-
ducible complexity of the clotting cascade could be dealt with by
natural selection. It strikes me that the main purpose of the para-
graph is not to actually contribute to our understanding of how
clotting actually may have arisen, but to persuade those who aren't
familiar with biochemical complexity to believe Darwinism has the
problem under control. It doesn't. 78
As noted by Behe, evolutionists' fictitious accounts, which
I have emphasized many times in my other books, may inter-

Adnan
Oktar

169