RE: IC^-90 was IC^2, i.e. Behe's Irreducible Complexity Squared

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 11:55:30 -0700

>And this isn't the whole story either. The further we go, the greater
>the complexity and the more incredible the level of nanoengineering
>required for even one cell. In my opinion, Behe's book is one of the
>most powerful refutations of "evolution" to come along in the last 100
>years.
>

Brian: <<Really? My impression was that it was a critique of Darwinism,
not evolution.>>

Good point. And furthermore it was an 'attempt to refute Darwinism by the imho artificial use of a tautology. Refer to something as irreducible complex and define irreducibly complex as something that could not have evolved gradually. Voila.

Only problem is that while I agree that 'irreducibly complex' systems exist, this does not mean that this could not have happened through gradual steps, as was quite aptly shown in several hypothetical case.