Behe already gave an answer:
"Suppose that nearly four billion years ago the designer made the first
cell already containing all of the irreducibly complex biochemical systems
discussed here and many others. (One can postulate that the designs for
systems that were to be used later, such as blood clotting were present but
not 'turned on.' In present-day organisms plenty of genes are turned off
for a while, sometimes for generations, to be turned on at a later time.)
Additionally, suppose the designer placed into the cell some other systems
for which we cannot adduce enough evidence to conclude design. The cell
containing the designed systems then was left on autopilot to reproduce,
mutate, eat and be eaten, bump against rocks, and suffer all the vagaries
of life on earth. During this process pace Ken Miller, pseudogenes might
occasionally arise and a complex organ might become nonfunctional. These
chance events do not mean that the initial biochemical systems were not
designed. The cellular warts and wrinkles that Miller takes as evidence of
evolution may simply be evidence of age." ~ Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black
Box, (New York: The Free Press, 1996), p. 227-228
My questions:
do we have a gene for flagellum?
So why argue agains pseudogenes
glenn
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
Foundation, Fall and Flood
& lots of creation/evolution information
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm