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Blood Clotting also indicative of an irreducibly complex system. While the blood
clot itself is relatively simple, the system that regulates the clotting consists of
ten finely tuned processes. Says, Behe: “If you make a clot in the wrong place –
say, the brain or lung – you’ll die. If you make a clot twenty minutes after all the
blood has drained from your body, you’ll die. If the blood clot isn’t confined to
the cut, your entire blood system might solidify, and you’ll die. If you make a clot
that doesn’t cover the entire length of the cut, you’ll die. To create a perfectly
balanced blood-clotting system, clusters of protein components have to be
inserted all at once. That rules out a gradualistic Darwinian approach…” In order to explain how blood-

clotting could have developed gradually, evolutionists are forced to paint vague word pictures with
generalizations indicating that components “arose” or “sprang forth.” No scientists have effectively
described how the components arose, and nobody has performed experiments to show empirically how
this gradual development might have occurred. Moreover, the issue of how animals kept from bleeding
to death while blood-clotting processes evolved is problematic for the evolutionists. The evidence
points toward a creator, rather than evolution.

On the next page is a diagram that demonstrates the interrelated systems that are needed to initiate the
clotting process and then turn it off when not needed.

There are many more examples of irreducible complexity in biology, including aspects of protein
transport, closed circular DNA, electron transport, cilia, photosynthesis, transcription regulation, and
much more. However, the examples given above are enough to show that Darwin’s theory of slow,
successive changes fails to pass the acid test.
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