If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more.

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

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.