Tag: Irreducible Complexity
Asking Questions Demonstrates Human Exceptionalism
This human trait of question-asking begins almost as soon as we learn to talk. Young children can confound their parents with their rapid-fire questions.
Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma
Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate.
Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency — A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life
A microbe was found to organize its electron transport machinery in a way that bends the membrane for optimum energy utilization.
Reconsidering David Hume’s Critique of Design Thinking
There is no sense in which we can say that Hume destroyed the intellectual coherence of design thinking. William Paley could already see this in 1802.
Engineering, not Evolution, Explains the Body
Laufmann and Glicksman point to essential systems within systems within systems — irreducible complexity cubed, if you will.