Hey, thanks for responding.

The idea of gradual steps following the rules of natural selection was all I was trying to accomplish. I think I have succeeded on that level. Don't you at least agree with that much?

I know little of microbiology. So your guess as to what the structures are made of would be better than mine. That's why I chose the fictional world of an organic house and not a bacterial flagella.

I chose to pick the 10 main steps of the evolutionary process in order to make a point about irreducible complexity. I'll leave the details to the real scientists. But can't your rebuttal be applied to any level of evolution? "What are the probabilities of a scale evolving into a feather? A flipper turning into a hand? An ape into a human? Beats me! It doesn't mean that it can't or it didn't happen. I know that you believe in evolution, so I know that you know I'm right about this much.

Yes, flaps occasionally pop up. Lot's of different things occasionally happen, that's what mutations are. It's just that sometimes they work to our advantage. That's the point of natural selection. Favorable mutations stay around, useless ones don't. Are you saying that mutations can not happen at the molecular level? If so, then I'm wrong. Is that the case? Was there no room for mutations in the development of a bacterial flagella?

Does it really matter how the flap is attached to the wall? Do I really need to show every step of the flap evolving? I can, if I have the time... but that's not the point. The point is to show a Darwinian process of a seemingly irreducibly complex mousetrap like device. Wasn't that the challenge?

When John McDonald presented you with the reducibly complex mousetrap, your response was, "Yes, he has succeeded in reducing it, but it would not have evolved that way because there is no benefit from step one to step two to step three". I regard that as a valid criticism (although that wasn't the point he was trying to make). So I took it from the ground up. Making sure that each step was an improvement on the last. Making sure it followed the rules of natural selection.

Just answer me this, if you would be so kind: in your opinion, vagueness and all, do the ten steps I show obey the rules of natural selection? Yes or no?

Thanks again for responding! You made my day...

-A