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===Origins===

[[File:Darwinsblackbox.jpg|thumb|right|160px|[[Michael Behe]]'s controversial book ''[[Darwin's Black Box]]'' popularized the concept of irreducible complexity.]]

[[Michael Behe]] developed his ideas on the concept around 1992, in the early days of the '[[wedge strategy|wedge movement]]', and first presented his ideas about "irreducible complexity" in June 1993 when the "Johnson-Behe cadre of scholars" met at Pajaro Dunes in California.<ref name=bfwedge>[[Barbara Forrest]], [http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Wedge.cfm#I The Wedge at Work]. Talk Reason.<br/>{{cite book |author=Forrest B |editor=Pennock RT |chapter=1: The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism is Wedging its way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream |title=Intelligent design creationism and its critics: philosophical, theological, and scientific perspectives |publisher=MIT Press |___location=Cambridge, Mass |year=2001 |pages=5–54 |isbn=0-262-66124-1}}</ref> He set out his ideas in the second edition of ''[[Of Pandas and People]]'' published in 1993, extensively revising Chapter 6 ''Biochemical Similarities'' with new sections on the complex mechanism of blood clotting and on the origin of proteins.<ref>[http://ncseweb.org/creationism/analysis/new-pandas-has-creationist-scholarship-improved The New Pandas: Has Creationist Scholarship Improved?] Comments on 1993 Revisions by Frank J. Sonleitner (1994)<br/>[http://ncseweb.org/creationism/analysis/critique-pandas-people Introduction: Of Pandas and People, the foundational work of the 'Intelligent Design' movement] by Nick Matzke 2004,<br/>[http://ncseweb.org/rncse/26/1-2/design-trial Design on Trial in Dover, Pennsylvania] by Nicholas J Matzke, NCSE Public Information Project Specialist</ref>