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Any living system
contains a far greater
complexity than that
in any clock.
Nonetheless, any ran-
dom change in any
mechanical system,
such as a clock, will
make it functionless.
Such an effect will
clearly wreak havoc
on a living organism.

ing created by Allah, not through coincidental changes. The molec-
ular biologist Michael Denton describes the situation by using an
analogy:
In complex systems like a watch or a living system, all the subsystems
are intensely integrated. Engineering changes in such systems is com-
plex because each change to any one subsystem must be compatible
with the functioning of all the other subsystems. Any change beyond
a trivial degree is bound to necessitate intelligently directed compen-
satory changes in many of the interacting subsystems. In this context,
it is hard to understand how undirected evolution via a series of inde-
pendent changes could ever produce a radical redesign in any sort of
system as complex as a living organism. It is precisely this integrated
complexity which provides a major barrier to engineering radical
change in living things from viruses to mammals. 90
The principle that “all the subsystems comprising a complex
system are intensely integrated” can also be seen in the early histo-
ry of the animal kingdom.

Adnan Oktar

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