Page 102 - Genesis: Book of Beginnings and Science Behind it

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, and we will have a flagellum that
doesn’t work. cxvi

Blood Clotting is also indicative of an irreducibly complex system. While the
blood clot itself is relatively simple, the system that regulates 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…”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 were 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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