RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 15, 2018 at 7:05 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2018 at 7:05 am by Angrboda.)
(May 15, 2018 at 12:47 am)CDF47 Wrote:(May 15, 2018 at 12:42 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:![]()
What an trumpesque worm.
The machine under the pump is irreducibly complex so it is no longer just an assertion.
Quote:Argument from ignorance
Intelligent design proponents attribute to an intelligent designer those biological structures they believe are irreducibly complex and therefore they say a natural explanation is insufficient to account for them. However, critics view irreducible complexity as a special case of the "complexity indicates design" claim, and thus see it as an argument from ignorance and as a God-of-the-gaps argument.
Wikipedia || Irreducible Complexity
Irreducible complexity, including your specific claim about the precursors to the bacterial flagellum, is the claim that because we don't know the steps it took to evolve any particular system, that it therefore did not and could not evolve. That's a non sequitur, the conclusion doesn't follow from the premises, and specifically an argument from ignorance. All you're doing by repeating the argument is repeating a flawed argument. Your repetition of an invalid argument, no matter how many times you repeat it, will not make it right. If you want irreducible complexity to be a valid argument, you have to show not only do we not know the precursor to a given system, but also that a precursor system is not even possible in theory. You've done the former, not the latter. That is why you fail.
Quote:Argument from ignorance
Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence") is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is either true or false because of lack or absence of evidence or proof to the contrary. This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that there may have been an insufficient investigation, and therefore there is insufficient information to prove the proposition be either true or false. Nor does it allow the admission that the choices may in fact not be two (true or false), but may be as many as four.
Wikipedia || Argument from ignorance
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