>Re: intell. des. and Berra's folly

E G M (e_g_m@yahoo.com)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:07:21 -0700 (PDT)

Yes, of course, the mouse trap is a macro system used by Behe as an
*example* of a I.C. system that could not have come together
darwinistically. In that case you are right and I am wrong but let me
emphasize that the trap was used as an *example* and that the trap is
not a biological entity either.

I guess what you want to find is a biological I.C. system that did
indeed evolved darwinistically in order to refute Behe's argument.
When you find one let me know. The economy is not a good
counterexample for the reasons already given and besides it is not a
non-intelligent biological system (even if you could model it as one).

But then again, nobody sees the world as it is ..............

Chao

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Re: intell. des. and Berra's folly

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Tue, 02 Jun 1998 18:26:04 -0500

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Hi Ed,
At 07:17 AM 6/2/98 -0700, E G M wrote:
>At this point I have not kept my word because I'm still discussing the
>issue when I said that I was not going to anymore. This is a futile
>excercise. Everyone will continue to think in the framework of their
>own paradigm. I just hope and pray that you'll agree that Behe's IC
>definition was not meant to be applied in the macro-world.

Behe himself does not make this limitation. In fact, he uses it in
macrosystems like his famous mousetrap example. In his index he has
"mousetrap, irreducible complexity of 42, 47). Of the mousetrap he
writes:

The second step in determining if a system is irreducibly cmplex is to
ask
if all the components are required for the function. In this example,
the
answer is clearly yes." p. 42

The mousetrap IS a macrosystem that you are trying to say is not meant
by
Behe. Why does Behe use a macro example if he didn't think I.C.
applied to
macros? While you have read Behe, you have not understood Behe.
glenn

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