<< Nelson:
Since you have not shown any pathways to any IC systems I still think that
IC systems are a reliable detector of design.
FMA:
If you believe that IC is still a reliable detector of design, can you show
how it can exclude a natural pathway as a designer?
Nelson:
An irreducibly complex systems can only be built simultaneously. Thus
physical precursors are eliminated as the designer. It can not be built
gradually , step by step.
Nelson:
As I illustrated with the Dawkins discussion of the 91 membranes, it
succesfully eliminates natural selection.
>>
FMA:
Not really. All you are attacking is the strawman that natural selection can
only take direct routes.
Nelson:
Indirect routes are indistinguishable from direct ones and invoke pure
random chance. They are non-Darwinian.
FMA:
Even Behe admits that there are indirect routes,
although he seems to reject them without much supporting argument and
evidence.
Nelson:
Another handwave.
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