HorhayAtAMD
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This is the part from your link that I think completely neuters the irreducible complexity argument.KarlMarx said:Sorry that I derailed the topic... I was trying to make a point, but I guess it got lost in the translation... to try and make up for it, here's a link to Wikipedia on "irreducible complexity"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity
Karl
I can't say it any better than that.Evolution can act to simplify as well as to complicate. This raises the possibility that apparently irreducibly complex biological features may have been achieved with a period of increasing complexity, followed by a period of simplification. By analogy, stone arches are irreducibly complex if you remove any stone the arch will collapse yet we build them easily enough, one stone at a time, by building over scaffolding that is removed afterward. Similarly, naturally occurring arches of stone are formed by weathering away bits of stone from a large concretion that has formed previously.