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The call for an intelligent designer is predicated on the existence of irreducible complexity in organisms. In Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), an irreducibly complex system is defined as being “composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any...
in intelligent design )...random mutation and natural selection, as the standard evolutionary account maintains; instead, living organisms must have been created all at once by an intelligent designer. In Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), the American molecular biologist Michael Behe, the leading scientific spokesperson for intelligent design, offered three...
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