Such a system must be fully in place before it could work at all, a property called irreducible complexity. This means that it is impossible to be built by natural selection working on small changes.
This is bullpoop. What the author of that phrase did was assumed that all life suddenly appeared as it is completely identical to the one we see today. In other words, he took a snapshot of a fairly complex mechanism and completely ignore what came before.
Here is an example. Suppose you take a look at today's fighter jet, which is very very complex. The author would claim that the fighter jet is so advance that it is impossible for it to be built through small changes. He completely ignores all the planes that came before, including the one the Wright brothers built and flew. After all, that first plane was completely alien compared to today's fighter jet.
This message has been edited by Lam, 06-23-2004 11:59 PM
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