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no ability to trap a mouse until several separate parts are all
assembled. Because the mousetrap is necessarily composed of
several parts, it is irreducibly complex.”

A High Performance Motor: It is one of the most efficient motors
ever contrived. It spins at a staggering 10,000 revolutions per
minute. It can stop within a quarter of a turn, and immediately spin
in the opposite direction at 10,000 rpm. At less than a couple of
microns in length (a micron is one millionth of a meter), it is too
small to see without very expensive electron microscopes. This
motor powers the bacterial flagellum, which acts as a rotary motor
to propel the bacteria. It takes approximately 30 to 35 proteins to
form a functional flagellum. If we remove a few proteins, we won’t have a flagellum that rotates at only
5000 rpm, we have a flagellum that doesn’t work.

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.

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