(March 2, 2021 at 12:04 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(March 1, 2021 at 11:21 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Nature is full of living beings who have organs on different levels of development, as the eye: with some animals having eyes reduced (missing components) compared to other animals.
Since evolution seeks to explain this diversity, the diversity itself cannot be evidence of evolution. A different argument needs to be made. One that addresses irreducibility directly.
Well, it is addressing it because we are talking about reduced organs. And irreducible complexity got its final nail in the coffin in Kitzmiller v. Dover in 2004 when the judge, after months of testimony, ruled it to be bullshit.
Quote:(2) the argument of irreducible complexity, central to ID, employs the same flawed and illogical contrived dualism that doomed creation science in the 1980s; and (3) ID's negative attacks on evolution have been refuted by the scientific community. ... It is additionally important to note that ID has failed to gain acceptance in the scientific community, it has not generated peer-reviewed publications, nor has it been the subject of testing and research.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
