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Wind Shlavitor said:

Edit: you know what; nevermind the post I put last night.

.. Irreduceable compexity ...

"While he did not originate the term, Charles Darwin identified the argument as a possible way to falsify a prediction of the theory of evolution at the outset. In The Origin of Species, he wrote, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down"

You're responding to my post, right?  Do you understand why irreducible complexity (as I understand the term, and according to the definition I gave) in no way meets that standard of falsification? 

Am I wrong about how people use that term? 
(Michael Behe:  "A single system which is composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning."  I guess I'm not wrong...)



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