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Old 05-18-2011, 07:25 PM   #37
flueftArete

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I've always been a bit discombobulated with the notion of Irreducible Complexity. I realize that this theory got ripped apart during the Dover trial, but I never understood the idea that life is too complex to have a natural beginning. I get what they are saying, but how then does God fit in. He was just so complex that he conveniently always existed? God had no beginning, is infinite and has infinite wisdom, yet its the million dollar jackpot that life formed under the right conditions in a window of almost 1 billion years? Doesn't make sense to me. If one person per country bought a lottery ticket for 900 million years I am sure someone would win.. right?

I would love to get schooled on this. 12 years of Sunday School and this issue was constantly side-stepped.
Irreducible Complexity isn't just complexity. It is complexity and simultaneity.

So the argument is that evolution acts on changes/mutations in a step by step fashion and changes that give an advantage survive and propagate.

So A->AB->ABC->ABCD. But what if ABCD confers an advantage but nothing before that does? That is the challenge Irreducible Complexity brings against evolution. Step-by-step won't work since you need to have leaps if there is an irreducibly complex structure.
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