 | Garry Poole, Garry D. Poole, Judson Poling - Reference - 2003 - 150 pages
...living cells; 3) Hence, the best explanation for such life is an intelligent Designer. Darwin admitted: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down" (Darwin, Origin of Species). Evolutionist Richard Dawkins agrees: "Evolution is very possibly not,... | |
 | Philip Andrew Stokes - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 230 pages
...theory and more of a blind faith. However, Darwin himself was clear about what could falsify the theory. 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down'. So far, no alternative theory has provided the required demonstration to meet Darwin's challenge. Henri... | |
 | Ravi Zacharias, Norman L. Geisler - Religion - 2003 - 178 pages
...molecular level. Michael Behe develops this approach in his book Danvin's Black Box. He quotes Darwin, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."33 Is there such a system that would meet Darwin's criterion for falsifying his theory? Behe... | |
 | John A. Ford, Katherine M. Ford - Bible and evolution - 2003 - 154 pages
..."The Origin of Species", "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed that could not have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." The fact is that complex, as Darwin understood it, and the actual complexity of one human cell, as... | |
 | Mary Jane West-Eberhard - Psychology - 2003 - 820 pages
...nestlings. PART IV DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND THE MAJOR THEMES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 24 Gtadualism If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could no1 possibly have been formed by numerous, suctessive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely... | |
 | William A. Dembski, Michael Ruse - Science - 2004 - 430 pages
...Darwinian framework, for a reason insisted upon by Darwin himself. In the Origin, Darwin wrote that "[i]f it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case" (Darwin I859, I58). Here Darwin was emphasizing that his was a gradual theory. Natural selection had... | |
 | Marjorie Grene, David J. Depew - Philosophy - 2004 - 446 pages
...paean to natural selection, comes the admission that this theory could indeed be falsified: If it would be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which...absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case (our italics). How to prove an impossibility? We don't know the transitions - but here comes the warning:... | |
 | Angus M. Gunn - Education - 2015 - 199 pages
...and Biochemistry. The tide of his book is drawn from a statement by Darwin along the following lines: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." Behe picks up on this statement and argues that the most convincing evidence for design is not to be... | |
 | Jeff Astley, David Brown, Ann Loades - Religion - 2004 - 142 pages
...Inference', http://www.arn.org/docs/behe/mb_mm92496.htm, 1997 In The Origin of Species Darwin stated: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely breakdown.' A system which meets Darwin's criterion is one which exhibits irreducible complexity. By... | |
 | Francis J. Beckwith, William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland - Religion - 2009 - 397 pages
...Small Probabilities (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), chap. 5. 276 To EVERYONE AN ANSWER any complex organ existed which could not possibly...slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."23 Thus a system that is irreducibly complex (1C) is a serious challenge to the explanatory power... | |
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If 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. 
