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" The relevant steps in biological processes occur ultimately at the molecular level, so a satisfacatory explanation of a biological phenomenon--such as sight, digestion, or immunity--must include its molecular explanation.
Now that the black box of vision has been opened, it is no longer enough for an evolutionary explanation of that power to consider only the anatomical structures of whole eyes, as Darwin did in the nineteenth century (and as popularizers of evolution continue to do today).
Each of the anatomical steps and structures that Darwin thought were so simple actually involves staggeringly complicated biochemical processes that cannot be papered over with rhetoric. "

Michael J. Behe , Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution


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Michael J. Behe quote : The relevant steps in biological processes occur ultimately at the molecular level, so a satisfacatory explanation of a biological phenomenon--such as sight, digestion, or immunity--must include its molecular explanation.<br />Now that the black box of vision has been opened, it is no longer enough for an evolutionary explanation of that power to consider only the anatomical structures of whole eyes, as Darwin did in the nineteenth century (and as popularizers of evolution continue to do today).<br />Each of the anatomical steps and structures that Darwin thought were so simple actually involves staggeringly complicated biochemical processes that cannot be papered over with rhetoric.