Does "worthy of Rube Goldberg" mean "worthy to be called a very complicated invention"?

Yes, but more a needlessly complicated invention.

Thank you Engineer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

British English speakers will probably be more familiar with Heath Robinson (William Heath Robinson 1872 - 1944)

Cool.
Rube Goldberg vs. Heath Robinson
Two tiresome big boys meet at last.

Is Heath's name used in the same fashion as Godlberg's, C?




I note,

It means something a bit different from "worthy to be called a very complex invantion". Behe is a proponent of "intelligent design", the generally discredited argument that organisms didn't develop by natural evolution but had to be created by an "intelligent designer", i.e. that natural processes alone couldn't have developed them. He's maintains that the blood-clotting cascade is so complex, with so many steps, each dependent on the others, that it had to have been designed. Someone in the quote disagrees with him, and says to became more complex naturally, as more elements evolved from the original functionality.

Heath Robinson's name. I would say yes. Their drawing styles are somewhat similar. I don't know if this applies to Goldberg, but if a commentator used "Heath Robinsonish" about real-world physical machines or to business, political or administrative arrangements, a critical nuance might be intended - that the contrived thing was ramshackle, put together in haste, employed elements not intended (or suitable) to work together, etc. Also maybe that the thing was more for show (Heath Robinson was a visual artist) than function, perhaps to bamboozle the uninitiated with complexity (see snake oil, medicine shows, etc).

That is not to say that a comparison with Robinson's work might not sometimes carry praise: bolting something together out of scrap angle iron and bits and pieces of redundant machinery to save money compared with buying new is something farmers, etc often do.

I see I may have appeared inconsistent in my naming of William Heath Robinson. He had what English people often call a "double barrelled" name. People possessing them are often members of the upper classes; they tend to arise because of merging of families/dynasties by marriage; sometimes a hyphen is used to separate the elements of the surname, sometimes not.

James Smith-Brown
Bill Smith Brown

The first chap could call himself Mr Smith-Brown, and the second Mr Smith Brown. Both could use Mr Brown but never Mr Smith.