...weed out "hopeless monsters" in favor of "hopeful monsters." Darwin was fully aware of this situation: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such cases" (p. 189). Yet the problem remains of how to push a structure over...

...the book in June 1852 (Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 2). 4 In Origin, p. 189, CD stated: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.' 5 H. Holland 1852, pp. 2oo 38. The specific point to which Holland...

...slow steps." Darwin was so convinced of the validity of this principle that he was willing to assert: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down" (1859:189). He was at once challenged by TH Huxley and others of his friends who thought that they...

...that would pose difficulties for his theory if they were discovered (Darwin 1859: 189, 199, 201, 56): If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. . . . [Opponents of the utilitarian doctrine] believe that very many structures have been created for...

...Press, New York. 9 Testing the Theory of Descent DAVID PENNY, MICHAEL D. HENDY, AND MICHAEL A. STEEL If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down (Darwin, 1859: 189). The comment of Popper (1976:168) that "Darwinism is not a testable scientific...

...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real ... If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But 1 can find out no such case. The evolution of the eye may be traced through a sequence of small...

...Interestingly, Darwin himself grasped the problem and even admitted that it could falsify his theory. "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications," he wrote, "my theory would absolutely break down."11 Today we can confidently say that his theory has...

...terror, massacres, hunger, poverty, and oppression: the morals of the Qur'an. 102 PAGES Darwin said: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." When you read this book, you will see that Darwin's theory has absolutely broken down, just as he feared...

...must be supernatural" (DM, 125-26). Darwin, recognizing that his whole theory was here at stake, said: If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. (OS, 171) Given his principles, Darwin could not "save" his theory by allowing divine insertions here...

...In relation to such large-scale structures as bodily organs, Darwin himself had acknowledged that ' if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...successive, slight modifications, my theory would break down'.11 Behe believes that he has demonstrated just such cases at the small-scale level of biochemistry...