Category: Irreducible Complexity
You’ll never guess why biological wheels are not irreducibly complex
| March 15, 2016 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity |
From New Scientist: Behold – the only known example of a biological wheel. Loved by creationists, who falsely think they are examples of “intelligent design”, the bacterial flagellum is a long tail that is spun like a propeller by nano-sized protein motors. … Indeed, the diversity of the motors and the fact that they have […]
Quick Note for the Record: Behe and Chen et al 2007
| March 15, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Cell biology, Irreducible Complexity |
I was asked today for a comment about a paper regarding irreducible complexity – Eliminating the Requirement of an Essential Gene Product in an Already Very Small Virus: Scaffolding Protein B-free øX174, B-free by Min Chen, Asako Uchiyama, and Bentley A. Fane, 2007. I noted that despite this having been written in 2007, no one […]
Michael Flannery: Astounding News Flash!—Perry Marshall Singlehandedly Breaks the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design (or maybe not)
| January 10, 2016 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, theistic evolution |
Science historian Michael Flannery kindly contributed this review: When I started reading Perry Marshall’s book, Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design, I must confess to some consternation almost from the beginning. While Marshall was quick to point out the shortcomings of the neo-Darwinian approach of common descent by means of natural selection […]
Beginning to sound a lot like Behe …
| January 8, 2016 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
Everywhere I go … Rats! This should have happened approx December 8, 2015, not January 8, 2016: A friend writes to say that an open access paper at eLIFE includes the words, Tissue organization, spindle orientation, and the GKPID complex itself are all examples of complexity, defined as the integrated functioning of a system made […]
Mutations Degrade Inherited Intelligence
| December 22, 2015 | Posted by DLH under Biology, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Human evolution, Information, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Mind, The Design of Life |
The remarkable “powers” of evolution are now shown to degrade (aka “mutate”) the human genes essential to intelligence. Remarkably, they found that some of the same genes that influence human intelligence in healthy people were also the same genes that cause impaired cognitive ability and epilepsy when mutated, networks which they called M1 and M3.
Film nite: “Simple worm” hires a PR firm
| December 13, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
Wants to shed “simple” schtick. Introducing C. elegans, the worm that survived the space shuttle blowup. Philosopher of Biology Paul Nelson describes the amazing process by which the worm C. elegans is constructed and how it points toward intelligent design. Also: Irreducibly complex behaviour in worms? and White space in evolutionary thinking (Where thought stops) […]
Irreducible Complexity: the primordial condition of biology
| November 30, 2015 | Posted by Upright BiPed under academic freedom, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Origin Of Life |
In 1996, Lehigh University professor of biochemistry, Michael Behe, published his first book Darwin’s Black Box, which famously advanced the concept of irreducible complexity (IC) to prominent status in the conversation of design in biology. In his book, Professor Behe described irreducible complexity as: A single system which is composed of several interacting parts that contribute […]
Jonathan McLatchie on irreducible complexity
| October 20, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Bobby Conway, of One Minute Apologist, asks Jonathan McLatchie about the concept of irreducible complexity: Note: The term was not coined by Michael Behe, as often supposed or in creationist literature. Rather, here is where it originated: — Some say, of course, that the idea of irreducible complexity (IR) arose from creationist literature (also here.) Seriously, the […]
Amazing DNA Repair process further detailed
| September 10, 2015 | Posted by DLH under Biophysics, Darwinism, Design inference, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, Genomics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Rockefeller University researchers found that part of a DNA repair protein known as 53BP1 fits over the phosphorylated part of H2AX “like a glove,” says Kleiner. This interaction helps bring 53BP1 to the site of DNA damage, where it mediates the repair of double-stranded breaks in DNA by encouraging the repair machinery to glue the […]
Human languages are irreducibly complex?
| July 4, 2015 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, language, News |
Says this German mag, in translation: Farewell to the World Formula The laws of nature are ephemeral Natural laws are in line with established opinion to immutable component of the natural sciences. A physicist and a philosopher now say goodbye to the idea. by Edu Why so and not otherwise? Until recently was Lee Smolin, […]
Irreducibly complex behaviour in worms?
| July 1, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
Remember that worm, C elegans, that survived the space shuttle blowup? At Evolution News & Views, Casey Luskin tells us, My master’s degree research focused on paleomagnetism and I’ve always been fascinated by the earth’s magnetic field. So naturally I was interested in new research by biologists at the University of Texas, Austin, published in […]
Emergence as an Explanation for Living Systems
| June 26, 2015 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Evolution, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, Irreducible Complexity, Origin Of Life, Self-Org. Theory |
Yesterday I watched a re-run of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. There. I said it. I love Star Trek. Notwithstanding the many absurd evolution-based plotlines. In this specific episode, Data referred to a particular characteristic of a newly-developing lifeform as an “emergent property.” I’ve looked into the “emergence” ideas in the past, and […]
FYI-FTR*: Part 2, Is it so that >>If current models are inadequate (and actually all models are), and indeed we do not yet have good OoL models, that does not in itself make a case for design>>
| May 31, 2015 | Posted by kairosfocus under Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, FYI-FTR, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity, Selective Hyperskepticism |
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Further for record* on the case for a designer: EL, here: >> . . . What undermines the “case for design” chiefly, is that there isn’t a case for a designer. If current models are inadequate (and actually all [the?] models are), and indeed we do not yet have good OoL models, that does not […]
FYI-FTR: Communication system framework model . . . relevance to the cell
| May 28, 2015 | Posted by kairosfocus under Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, FYI-FTR, ID Foundations, Information, Irreducible Complexity, Selective Hyperskepticism |
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Andre just asked me: can you please embed a flowchart of how communication works for [XXXX] … You know the one that goes like this input encoder medium decoder output. I don’t think [XXXX] understands the problems such a system has with accidental processes nor does he understand IC. Please KF. With a little bit […]
Build your own worm
| April 18, 2015 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
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Why I Love AVIDA – Detecting Design in Digital Organisms
| March 17, 2015 | Posted by johnnyb under Darwinism, Design inference, Evolutionary biology, ID Foundations, Informatics, Information, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
There are many ID’ers who complain about the AVIDA simulation, and I for the life of me can’t figure out why this is so.
Term “irreducible complexity” revisited
| March 9, 2015 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity |
Further to: Where did the term irreducible complexity originate, Michael “Forbidden Archeology” Cremo writes to say, Richard Thompson and I used the term “irreducible complexity” In our 1984 publication Origins. “Looking at the complex phenomena that confront any observer of the universe, scientists have decided to try a reductionistic approach. They say, ‘Let’s try to […]
Where did the term “irreducible complexity” originate?
| March 2, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
The term refers to the fact that many features of cells simply cannot be the product of Darwinian evolution (a point that is slowly being conceded now). Trying to rectify some known functions of cells with explicitly Darwinian evolution is just a time sink. Some say, of course, that the idea of irreducible complexity (IR) arose from […]
Evolution of an Irreducibly Complex System – Lenski’s E. Coli
| February 25, 2015 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Irreducible Complexity |
On another thread we have been discussing abiogenesis in particular, but there was also some discussion about the evolution of an irreducibly complex system. Commenter CHartsil indicated that “we actually watched an IC system evolve” in reference to Lenski’s E. coli research. At my request, he has posted a brief summary of the research and […]
Blood pressure system irreducibly complex?
| November 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
We have a g-suit system built into our bodies,
