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Quote by: rez So, do you think it is possible to demonstrate and discover such an organism that could not have been formed by numerous successive modifications? |
On a molecular level biology shows amazing ingenuity in its ability to reuse the same basic platforms upon which to build nearly all of its necessary parts. Its very much a modular system, so that from the same basic parts one can piece them together with slight modification so as to build a huge variety of molecules and systems.
What this basically means is that on the molecular level you can find homologous molecules doing something completely different. This basically makes the idea of finding an irreducible complex part or system nearly impossible as it not only demonstrates that only slight modification is needed to create new function, but also that it makes it far easier to come up with possible means by which a system or molecule could evolve.
For instance the "motor" of the bacterial flagellum which you mention is in many ways similar to ATP synthetase and could have evolved from such an enzyme complex.
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Quote by: gallo Except for the fact that few creationists have ever read anything by Darwin |
Few evolutionists have read him as well.