Sentences with phrase «for irreducible complexity»
As for irreducible complexity, give me one example (any example) and I will gladly show evidence that it is not irreducibly complex.
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Discussing at length three biological structures that ID supporters cite as evidence of «irreducible complexity» (and therefore the need, they say, for divine intervention), Collins shows how ID remains no more than a modern version of a «god of the gaps» hypothesis, which posits a «clumsy Creator, having to intervene at regular intervals to fix the inadequacies of His own initial plan for generating the complexity of life» and therefore completely unsatisfactory.
George Orwell, in his famous essay on Dickens, saw in this philosophical and moral muddle not a weakness but a strength, a generosity of spirit, an openness to the irreducible complexity of mankind's moral situation, an immunity to what he called «the smelly little orthodoxies that are now contending for our souls.»
, the irreducible complexity problem explained so clearly by md2205 (research the parts of the flagellum bacterium — amazing), probability of something happening — for the many years evolution has been studied and not a single example of a transitional fossil (please research before replying — there have been MANY confirmed fakes) or an evolutionary event in progress.
Seriousness of purpose; the need for measure, endurance, foresight, and self - control; life's irreducible complexity and the hard choices that entails are all things our universities, and those within them who call themselves humanists, should be trying to convey.
Certainly, the Intelligent Design advocates have a point: if natural laws can be shown to be inherently unable to explain complexity, then one may legitimately claim for the entity in question an irreducible complexity.
[To date, there are an increasing number of scientists who have long since departed from that scientific philosophy — and are seeking another more adequate explanation for the lack of transitional life forms in the fossil record or the increasing irreducible complexity of living things at the cellular level which appear to be by design rather than random modification.]
Reading each of the chapters on planetary boundaries puts one in mind of an attempt to use the concept of irreducible complexity to make an argument for «intelligent design».
As for PNS, although PNS concepts like «irreducible complexity» got an airing I don't feel PNS was actually that much of an influence on what was discussed, yet alone what wa decided.