The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.