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Posted by Walter on June 18, 2009, 4:34 am
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Devo asked the board below to provide an evolutionist's answer to irreducible complexity.
I'm a young earther myself, but nonetheless I'll give it a go.
The evolutionary answer to irreducible complexity is cooption. If biological function requires minimum complexity beyond the reach of random mutations and natural selection to generate, than it
MUST
mean that the multiple parts of the
APPARENTLY
irreducibly complex mechanism joined together to create a new function after each subunit had evolved "normally" with completely different functions.
So, like Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 from the Old "Get Smart" series, if the
"Would you believe this car just assembled itself?"
has now been found to be ludicrous (i.e. the bacteria flagella could not have assembled itself via Darwinian processes)
then we are now told
"Would you believe that the parts that make up that car self assembled and then SOMEHOW they formed themselves into that car!"
I don't see why the latter fantasy is better than the former fantasy, but since evolution itself is a fantasy, some kind of set of little fantasies are necessary to sustain the greater fantasy.
So who cares what the latest fantasy is anyway?
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