Irreducible Complexity: Does It Exist?

3,283 views · Published 28 May 2007 · 3:02 · Indexed 1 October 2026

Channel: Desertphile · 2007 · Howto & Style

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Fundamentalist Christian Creationists calling their belief "Intelligent design" and their gods "Intelligent designers" have proposed the bacterial flagellum as being "irreducibly complex:" a feature of the biological world that could not have evolved but required gods, or space monsters, or fiends from hell, or some other beings to have "designed." But is that a valid belief?

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