Irreducible Complexity
Meyer's Hopeless Monster
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-08-30 06:33. Dissecting the Rhetoric | Icons | Irreducible Complexity | Meyer, Stephen C. | Specified ComplexityAlan Gishlick, Nick Matzke, and Wesley R. Elsberry critique the paper published by "intelligent design" advocate Stephen C. Meyer in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington in August, 2004. They conclude that Meyer's review paper presents an incomplete, misleading, and false impression of the biological evidence, and that his conclusion that "intelligent design" is supported because evolutionary alternatives are eliminated is illegitimate.
Theory Is As Theory Does
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-08-30 06:12. Behe, Michael J. | Irreducible ComplexityIan F. Musgrave, Steve Reuland, and Reed A. Cartwright examine the claims of the Michael Behe and David Snoke paper published in Protein Science in 2004. While the goal of the Behe and Snoke paper is to generate impressive-looking improbabilities for the evolutionary development of a class of biochemical features, it turns out that use of biologically realistic numbers in their model shows that evolution is almost certain to develop them.
Evolving Immunity
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-08-29 18:59. Behe, Michael J. | Irreducible ComplexityMatt Inlay responds to the immunity chapter, Chapter 6, of Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box.
Irreducible Complexity Demystified
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-08-28 02:58. Behe, Michael J. | Irreducible ComplexityBackground to "Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum"
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-08-27 19:24. Behe, Michael J. | Irreducible ComplexityNick Matzke provides a brief article covering some of the background information needed to understand arguments made about bacterial flagella and Michael Behe's claims of 'irreducible complexity' for that organelle.