[js1138]

If you concentrate on those components, a number of those components are ones which have been experimentally knocked out such as fibrinogen, prothrombin, and tissue factor. And if we go to the next slide, I have red arrows pointing to those components. And you see that they all fall in the area of the blood clotting cascade that I was specifically restricting my arguments to. And if you knock out those components, in fact, the blood clotting cascade is broken.

Nice argument, but unfortunately it isn't true. There are living creatures whose blood clotting works just fine without fibrinogen.

[CottShop]

[[Nice argument, but unfortunately it isn’t true. There are living creatures whose blood clotting works just fine without fibrinogen.]]

Not sure what your point is? fibrinogen is missing in a certain species? Big deal? Again, how does this relate to humans or species that rely on fibrinogen? Have they shown the species that doesn’t need it had it in the past, but lost it without ill effect? Have they some other mechanism/system that precluddes them from needing it like the vast majority of species do? If so, this argues against IC how? It doesn’t- and you know it- IF you or any other critic of Behe can show that species that doesn’t need it doesn’t have any other species specific system, and that common descent is fact, and that that species lost the need for Fibrinogen at some point, then and only then woudl you have a case that human and the vast majority of species blod clotting system isn’t IC- but as you full well know- that species could very well have been created with different mechanisms at play than most other species- Do we see the need for Fibronigen arising in other species down through time? You coutner argument is weak.