Irreducible Complexity

Problems with Evolution

by Ken Ham on December 12, 2025

Part 5

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There are major problems with evolution: it can’t explain the origin of life, multicellular organisms, or morality. Well, here’s another problem: irreducible complexity.

In creation we see systems that are essential to life that can’t work without every part being in place at the same time. For example, every living thing needs information to flow from three very different kinds of molecules: DNA, RNA, and proteins. Each needs the other two to function. If they weren’t all in place from the beginning, the system would be useless.

Slow, gradual changes can’t explain it. Only an all-wise Creator makes sense.

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