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| Chapter 6. Evidences of Design Intelligent Design Characteristic Number 1. Irreducible Complexity. A characteristic of design is the existence of a number of complex components working together to accomplish a function, where the elimination of even a single component renders the function inoperative. As a result, the first formation of at least minimal performance capabilities of a complex organ or structure becomes a single step process in which a number of different components need to make their first appearance simultaneously. Even evolutionists normally acknowledge single-step appearances of complex systems to be impossible. The most obvious example of irreducible complexity concerns the huge amount of information contained in the DNA along with a mechanism to extract and use it. It takes many, many complex components working together to extract and use information from the DNA. Everyone of them needs to function properly or the entire system fails. Yet, one cannot build a decoder without having the structure and operating instructions of every decoder component already defined in the DNA information. It takes an already existing decoder to read already existing information before life can start. There is no room for evolution in this. The combination of information and a decoding system represent an irreducibly complex system. This is a huge issue and a number of Fatal Roadblocks came from it. The ripple effects of this problem ultimately require formation of the first cell to be a single-step process. |