(A) Explain the Concept of Irreducible Complexity.
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- Explain the concept of Irreducible Complexity. (25)
- Intelligent Design (Thomas Aquinas)
- Claims that a supernatural power was responsible for the creation of the earth.
- This was not necessarily God.
- Differs from creationism, as it divorces these theories from the bible.
- Life on earth is so complex that it could not have happened by chance, it must have had a designer.
- Avoids any connection to scriptures in order to eliminate any chance that the theory has come from religious belief
- Claims that a supernatural power was responsible for the creation of the earth.
- Intelligent Design challenges Darwinism.
- Regardless of Natural Selection, it is not enough to bring about such complex components of design.
- Considers the idea of design outside of reproduction, Natural Selection cannot describe the complexity of all natural occurrences.
- Behe's Irreducable Complexity
- Challenges biological view of Evolution.
- Everything is dependent on multiple complex factors - this couldn't happen by chance
- Example of Flagella: 40 individual parts, each of which = unique. Unless they all evolved at the same time, system would be useless.
- Doesn't exclusively prove designer.
- Behe Mousetrap Theory
- Standard mousetrap is made of five parts, if any of these parts are taken away without sufficient replacement, the mousetrap will no longer work.
- Introduction
- Definition of Irreducible Complexity: a single system composed of several, well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function of the system, wherein the removal of any of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.
- Conclusion
- Sets out to explain design beyond Evolutionary processes e.g Natural Selection.
- Arguable more convincing than other theories that oppose Evolution because of Behe's somewhat empirical evidence.
- Intelligent Design (Thomas Aquinas)
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