2007-11-21 15:57:19 · 3 answers · asked by Dog 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Foxfire- you ask me to clarify? I thought the question was about as clear as it gets. Explain irreducible complexity. Simple.
2007-11-21 16:08:23 · update #1
Bula- Can you cite your source. Did Behe really recant his notion of IC?
2007-11-21 16:11:28 · update #2
Bula- Can you cite your source? Did Behe really recant his notion of IC?
2007-11-21 16:11:37 · update #3
Is there an echo in hear?
2007-11-21 16:14:17 · update #4
Basically it is the notion that complex structures of the body, say the eye for instance, if they are reduced in complexity (evolution in reverse) are not functional, and therefore offer no advantage to survival, and therefore why would they get passed on to future generations, since evolution holds that only beneficial mutations are passed on.
In other words, if the evolution of the eye, say from some simple light sensitive skin cell, to a more complex cell with rods, and then later with cones, and then later with a lens, and then later with some optic nerves, and then later somehow it gets attached to the brain. In all of the various stages, it served no purpose. So why would it be passed on from generation to generation.
It is said to be "irreducibly complex".
2007-11-21 16:09:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Here is a great link to a documentary recently on PBS about Intelligent Design vs Evolution. It's a wonderful explanation of the differences and it talks about the Dover trial. It also explains how Intelligent design is not science and it is merely Creationism in disguise;
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/
2007-11-22 00:13:00 · answer #2 · answered by Pathofreason.com 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could you clarify a bit, please?
2007-11-22 00:02:36 · answer #3 · answered by Foxfire 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋