Page "Irreducible complexity" Paragraph 23

In 1985 Cairns-Smith wrote of " interlocking ", " How can a complex collaboration between components evolve in small steps?

" and used the analogy of the scaffolding called centering used to build an arch then removed afterwards: " Surely there was ' scaffolding '.

Before the multitudinous components of present biochemistry could come to lean together they had to lean on something else.

" However, neither Muller or Cairns-Smith claimed that their ideas were evidence of something supernatural.