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is to say, the evidence (the car) would lead you to understand that you
were not the first rational being to visit the island.
Regarding the question of how design can be identified in bio-
logical structures, the scientific criteria put forward by the mathe-

matician William Dembski may serve as a guide. In his book The
Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities,
Dembski mathematically shows at which stage it is impossible for a
structure to be explained by chance and when the existence of an in-
telligent design is beyond dispute. Evolutionists are hopeless in the
face of these criteria of Dembski's.

The way out of this dilemma sought by evolutionists is the same
one we have examined elsewhere: they claim that structures referred
to as complex could actually evolve by means of natural selection.
Yet, this is a very easy claim to test. For example, it can be observed in
a laboratory whether, over thousands of generations, a bacterium

lacking flagella comes to develop these irreducibly complex struc-
tures when exposed to mutations. If, as the result of this experiment,
flagella appear, the claim that chance and natural selection can lead to
irreducibly complex structures will be meaningful. Even the appear-
ance of a single new protein in that bacterium would be chalked up as
a success for evolutionists. Yet, no experiment has ever produced

such a result. In fact, to conduct such an experiment would be as fu-
tile as observing a pile of scrap for a million years to see whether a jet
airplane will emerge.
In fact, we are witnessing the collapse of this strange logic, which
is unable to see the most obvious facts due to a fanatical devotion to

materialist philosophy. If a person sees a note reading "I SHALL BE
HOME AT 10" on the table when he enters a room, he will not imag-
ine that the note was written by chance—say, by the wind blowing
through the window and knocking over a bottle of ink. He will be

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