Complex

Never mind. This is actually the common argument against irreducible complexity. I thought I was being original. :( “… thus a complicated machine was gradually built up whose effective working was dependent upon the interlocking action of very numerous different ...

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... merely change what's already there, they also make additions to what's already there. If this weren't the case, organisms could never become so complex. Common sense tells me that newer "additions" (mutations) will not have many dependencies built upon them, thus they will have more ...

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... in the Cambrian period, it would have been very difficult for taxa to change their body plan once it was established. Screwing with Hox genes in a complex mammal would probably not result in a viable organism , but screwing with Hox genes in an insect? That can work. My guess would be this is why ...

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... in the Cambrian period, it would have been very difficult for taxa to change their body plan once it was established. Screwing with Hox genes in a complex mammal would probably not result in a viable organism, but screwing with Hox genes in an insect? That can work. My guess would be this is why ...

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... talking about the origin of life, not flagella!" I would point out that these arguments apply equally well to proto-life. The point is that a complex system arises piece by piece, not all at once. There were probably many cell-like structures that were quasi-alive, possessing some of the characteristics ...

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