{"id":268853,"date":"2017-05-02T14:52:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T18:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=268853"},"modified":"2020-08-23T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:56:23","slug":"time-chance-and-natural-selection-cannot-explain-the-wonder-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/time-chance-and-natural-selection-cannot-explain-the-wonder-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Time, chance and natural selection cannot explain the wonder of life"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Finally!!! Thank you Elohim!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Two decades ago, one scientist wrote a book that changed the way we talk about evolution. And his argument is still making waves.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.\u201d It was a mouthful of a title too typical of Victorian-era authors. But Charles Darwin\u2019s magnum opus, more commonly known as \u201cOn the Origin of Species,\u201d belongs on any list of books that made our world what it is today.<\/p>\n

What many don\u2019t realize is that the father of evolutionary theory showed a great deal of humility and openness to criticism. In one famous passage, Darwin wrote that, \u201cIf it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.\u201d He immediately added that to his knowledge, there were no such examples.<\/p>\n

What Darwin gave us here was a criterion by which his theory could be falsified, teeing up future scientists to reevaluate his conclusions. And in 1996, one biochemist did just that.<\/p>\n

Lehigh University professor Michael Behe has spent his career peering through a microscope at the inner workings of cells\u2014workings about which Darwin, writing in the 1850s, could only speculate.\u00a0In his 1996 book, \u201cDarwin\u2019s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution,\u201d Behe explained how Darwin\u2019s inability to see inside the cell kept him from witnessing mechanisms and processes which could not possibly have been formed through \u201cnumerous, successive, slight modifications.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organelles like the flagellum\u2014a microscopic \u201coutboard motor\u201d which many bacteria use for propulsion\u2014exhibit what Behe describes as \u201cirreducible complexity.\u201d In other words, these tiny machines\u2014complete with drive shafts, bushings, universal joints, and propellers\u2014have exactly the correct configuration of parts to perform a specific function. They could not have evolved from simpler mechanisms with fewer parts, because such mechanisms would be either useless or detrimental, in which case natural selection would weed them out.<\/p>\n

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