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Starman
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Sweden
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 Posted - 10/10/2006 : 01:14:53
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From a POTM nominated t.o post by Chris Ho-Stuart,
If anyone actually believed that Professor Michael "Astrology is Science" Behe at least thought of something new when he defined irreducible complexity think again!
The great geneticist Herman Muller defined in 1918, what he called interlocking complexity, as an expected result of the evolutionary process.quote:
Muller's definition of "interlocking complexity" is exactly the same
as the definition of "irreducible complexity" -- a system of mutually
independent parts that requires all those parts to be present for the
system to work. However, Muller's claim is that this is an EXPECTED
result of evolution. Behe took the same definition, and claimed it
was IMPOSSIBLE as a result of evolution.
The reason for the difference is basically that Muller was
using evolution; and Behe was using a weird strawman of his own
devising.
Mullers 1918 paper is available online.
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