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He first used the term " irreducible complexity " in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box, to refer to certain complex biochemical cellular systems.

He posits that evolutionary mechanisms cannot explain the development of such " irreducibly complex " systems.

Notably, Behe credits philosopher William Paley for the original concept, not von Bertalanffy, and suggests that his application of the concept to biological systems is entirely original.