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The phrase has since been commonly used to indicate a device about which nothing is know of its inner workings. As most people who use computers know almost nothing of how they are constructed or work inside, they could be considered black boxes. Lehigh University Professor and Intelligent Design proponent [[Michael Behe]] used this analogy in naming his book ''Darwin's Black Box'', which deals with the issue of irreducible complexity in biological cells.
The phrase has since been commonly used to indicate a device about which nothing is know of its inner workings. As most people who use computers know almost nothing of how they are constructed or work inside, they could be considered black boxes. Lehigh University Professor and Intelligent Design proponent [[Michael Behe]] used this analogy in naming his book ''Darwin's Black Box'', which deals with the issue of irreducible complexity in biological cells.
==The Recovery of KAL 007's Black Box==
[[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] was a Boeing 747 shot down by the Soviets on Sept. 1, 1983 just west of the Soviet territory of Sakhalin Island off the Siberian Maritime. There were 269 passengers and crew aboard. For over 10 years the Soviets denied having retrieved the Black Box but on January 8, 1993, [[Boris Yeltsin]], under pressure from Senator [[Jesse Helms]] of the Committee on Foreign Relations, handed the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Digital Flight Data Recorder tapes from the Black Box to the International Civil Aviation Organization of the United Nations. Here are the combined Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder transcripts chronicalling the first minute and 44 seconds of the flight of KAL 007 after missile detonation [http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#5]
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