(May 4, 2014 at 10:00 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 4, 2014 at 9:40 pm)Chuck Wrote: There is no such thing as irreducible complex. There is only complexity which appear to have low probabilities of arising within the time and number of tries thought to be available through paths and mechanisms we have yet conceived of.
If you underestimate the time available, or underestimate the number of ties that could have been made, or overestimate how completely you have enumerated all available paths and mechanisms, even the simplest thing can seem irreducible complex, hell, simpler than simplest, even the mind of a creationist can seem irreducible complex to overconfident simpletons like creationists.
Btw, artificially inserted watermark is not irreduceavly complex. You just have to know which path involving multiple reducible complex steps was taken to get to it. Humans are reducible complex. The works of humans are therefore reducible complex. So insertion of watermark is therefore reduce ably complex.
Irreducible complexity is the name given to the argument that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved from simpler, or "less complete" predecessors, through natural selection acting upon a series of advantageous naturally occurring, chance mutations. It is a bad name choice because even if humans were intelligently designed by God, they could still be reducible.
I think your criticism here is a bit nitty.
Look, you presented the irreducible complexity argument, and have yet to given an example of irreducibly complex organisms that could only have been intelligently designed by God.
This is quickly developing into a Hand Banana argument, ignoring how modern bananas were human cultivated as produce.
