[js1138]

From your link:

With over 50 different protein parts, it is hard to imagine a machine with so many necessary pieces.

And yet, some of those pieces are quite functional without the whole. How is this irreducible?

[Right Wing Professor]

With over 50 different protein parts, it is hard to imagine a machine with so many necessary pieces.

Which one of his examples is this from?

[Aquinasfan]

And yet, some of those pieces are quite functional without the whole. How is this irreducible?

The whole cannot operate without all of its components in place. Any speculative intermediate stages would not operate and would offer no survival advantage.