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Pastimes : Observations and Collectables

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To: TimF who wrote (269)9/13/2006 7:04:23 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 17073
 
I'll comment on only one of the links now due to time:

millerandlevine.com

Claiming the flagellar motor developed from another structure, the type 3 secretory system, doesn't address the issue of irreducible complexity IMO.

It is a surmise that the flagellar motor developed from the TTSS. It could just as easily be surmised (and has been) that the TTSS developed from the flagellar motor. It might be that neither developed from the other.

But either way, both are arguably irreducibly complex, so what is gained by arguing one is derived from the other. You are still left with an irreducibly complex structure.

Also, I'll add that Miller seems to want to have it both ways. Biological life just happened without design per mainstream Darwinism, yet he agrees that we're in a world of meaning and purpose consistent with an overarching, possibly Divine intelligence... Life is either one or the other - accident or design. Of the two, design is far easier to believe.
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