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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

"irreducible complexity," definitively destroys Darwinism, just as Darwin
himself feared.

The Bacterial Flagellum
The most important person to bring the concept of irreducible
complexity to the forefront of the scientific agenda is the biochemist
Michael J. Behe of Lehigh University in the United States. In his book
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, published in
1996, Behe examines the irreducibly complex structure of the cell and a
number of other biochemical structures, and reveals that it is impossible to
account for these by evolution. According to Behe, the real explanation of
life is creation.
Behe's book was a serious blow to Darwinism. In fact, Peter van
Inwagen, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame,
stresses the importance of the book in this manner:
If Darwinians respond to this important book by ignoring it, misrepresenting
it, or ridiculing it, that will be evidence in favor of the widespread suspicion
that Darwinism today functions more as an ideology than as a scientific
theory. If they can successfully answer Behe's arguments, that will be
important evidence in favor of Darwinism. 342

One of the interesting examples of irreducible complexity that Behe
gives in his book is the bacterial flagellum. This is a whip-like organ that
is used by some bacteria to move about in a liquid environment. This

An electric motor—but not one in
a household appliance or vehicle.
This one is in a bacterium. By
means of this motor, bacteria have
been able to move those organs
known as "flagella" and thus swim
in water.
This was discovered in the 1970s,
and astounded the world of
science, because this "irreducibly
complex" organ, made up of some
240 distinct proteins, cannot be
explained by chance mechanisms as
Darwin had proposed.

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