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To: ctdonath2
Hey, fact is: complex systems can & do arise from simple principles.

And again, you're playing word games in conflating something that is "complex," with a complex "function."

Certainly the structure of a snowflake is "complex," but all the characteristics of the snowflake's complexity are resident in the properties of water. "Irreducible Complexity" describes a structure that IS NOT explainable by the properties of the constituent parts.

And for the record "hate" was a typo. I meant to say your syllogism pulled irreducible complexity out of your "hat." Just like your statement "Every living thing starts from a single cell, so complexity obviously arises from simple." "Single" and "simple" are not synonymous, and you know it, but you wrote it anyway.

37 posted on 03/08/2018 1:09:18 PM PST by papertyger (Bulverism: it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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To: papertyger

Then what part of an embryonic cell turning into a full-grown adult (whatever species) is “irreducibly complex”? We just figured out that mantises have 3D vision - why is that grounds to immediately declare it “irreducibly complex”?


38 posted on 03/08/2018 1:13:53 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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