Page 247 - The Errors the American National Academy of Sciences

The NAS's Errors in the Chapter on Creationism and
The Evidence for Evolution
The lethal blow that this system deals to the Darwinist explanation of
life as something random is obvious. Michael Behe makes this comment on
the chemistry of the eye and the theory of evolution:
Now that the black box of vision has been opened, it is no longer
enough for an evolutionary explanation of that power to consider
only the anatomical structures of whole eyes, as Darwin did in the
nineteenth century (and as popularizes of evolution continue to do
today). Each of the anatomical steps and structures that Darwin
thought were so simple actually involves staggeringly complicated bio-
chemical processes that cannot be papered over with rhetoric. 2
The irreducibly complex structure of the eye causes the Darwinist the-
3
ory to "absolutely break down," as Darwin himself put it. It also demon-
strates conclusively that life is created with a most superior design.

1. Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box, The Free Press, New York, 1996, pp. 18-21.
2. Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box, The Free Press, New York, 1996, p. 22. (em-
phasis added)
3. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard
University Press, 1964, p. 189.

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