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Thus It Seemed To Haeckel That Such Simple Life Could Easily Be Produced From Inanimate Material.

A Man From A Primitive Culture Who Sees An Automobile Might Guess That It Was Powered By The Wind Or By An Antelope Hidden Under The Car, But When He Opens Up The Hood And Sees The Engine He Immediately Realizes That It Was Designed.

Since Natural Selection Requires A Function To Select, An Irreducibly Complex Biological System, If There Is Such A Thing, Would Have To Arise As An Integrated Unit For Natural Selection To Have Anything To Act On.

If You Take Away A Rock From A Pile Of Rocks You Haven't Changed Much. It's Still A Heap Of Rocks - Just A Rock Or Two Smaller. Take Away A Component From The Mousetrap And It Isn't A Mousetrap Any More.

In Darwin's Time All Of Biology Was A Black Box: Not Only The Cell, Or The Eye, Or Digestion, Or Immunity, But Every Biological Structure And Function Because, Ultimately, No One Could Explain How Biological Processes Occurred.