Argument #3: Mutations

[Angrboda]

Refuting Talk Origins statements on mutations


good read -
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/06/can...61221.html

This is just a repackaging of the failed irreducible complexity hypothesis. It's claiming that multiple mutations need to occur in near simultaneous fashion for a beneficial structure to arise. This is wrong, as well as being a misrepresentation of what evolution says. Evolution says that the intermediate steps are retained because they pass natural selection, possibly by serving some other function. Claiming that whole new structures have to evolve in one step is false. This is not what evolution says and so it's attacking a straw man. And failing! As "irreducibly complex" structures proposed by Behe have been shown not to be irreducibly complex, and the whole argument is nothing more than an argument from ignorance, ergo, "I can't imagine how evolution could have done it, therefore it didn't."