[quote=The12thMan;432708]Ah, but there is always a point of irreducible complexity. Always.[quote]
Well, then, you should be able to reach a point where the "irreducible complexity" argument isn't refutable, even by conjecture. Give me an example of such a point. Because most such claims turn out to be bunk -- a willful failure of imagination more than an actually "irreducible" datum.
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And if you dismiss conjecture with conjecture, it's a tie.
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Not, as I noted, if the original claim is absolute.
In math, if someone posits a theorem to be true in all cases, I only have to show that it's false in *one* case in order to disprove the theorem.
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Now, I'll have to ask for a link. I've only seen possible explanations. Take the umpteen different chemical reactions required for a cell to sense light and go from there. Chance mutation? Of course! So how did it replicate itself once it accidentally got it right?
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But that's easy. If the mutation was heritable, then its offspring would have the mutation and also be able to see. And the sighted members of the species would have a huge advantage over standard, nonsighted members, and thus rapidly outreproduce -- and thus replace -- them.