Questions for Atheists Irreducible Complexity
10How do you account for the origin of life considering the irreducible complexity of its essential components? [1]
We'll first review what irreducible complexity is, what it claims, and who its main proponent is.
Then we'll discuss why it's invalid.
Finally, we'll look at one example of the origins of life - whether eukaryotes required mitochondria, which is currently the dominant theory. If any proto-eukaryotes might have survived and diversified without them, this is one things that is not irreducibly complex.
[1] "50 Questions For Atheists," by Meranda Devon, Why God Really Exists, accessed 31/7/2023
[2] Behe 1996 p. 39
[3] Behe 2002
[4] "Intelligent design in a mouse trap," Kenneth R Miller, Michigan School of Law, Youtube
[5] "Ken Miller refutes the irreducible complexity of mousetraps," Youtube
[6] "15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense," by John Rennie, Scientific American, 1/7/2002, accessed 31/7/2023
[7] "New research on the emergence of the first complex cells challenges orthodoxy," Richard Harth, Arizona State University, 8/8/2022, accessed 31/7/2023
Supplementary Reading and Viewing, Used To Write the Script
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"Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design,'" by Ker Than, ABC News, 23/9/2006, accessed 31/7/2023
"Behe and Irreducible Complexity: Failure to Engage the Evidence," by Kathryn Applegate, BioLogos, 11/6/2010, accessed 31/7/2023
"Irreducible Complexity," Rogers, CSBS, Utah University, accessed 31/7/2023
"The Mullerian Two-Step: Add a part, make it necessary or, Why Behe's "Irreducible Complexity" is silly," Douglas Theobald, Talk Origins, Last Updated 18/7/2007, accessed 31/7/2023
"Intelligent design in a mouse trap," Kenneth R Miller, Michigan School of Law, Youtube
"Irreducible Complexity? - Evolution of the Eye Explained," Essilor, Youtube