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To: Antoninus
If ID manages to demonstrate that certain biological tissues, organs, systems, or organisms are irreducibly complex...

How do you go about proving a negative? How many centuries, for example do you give science to plug the holes in Newton's equations before it becomes impossible? By what standard or logic or human experience do you declare something impossible?

You should be aware that every example of irreducible complexity from Behe's original formulation has become reducible with research.

311 posted on 01/06/2006 11:03:13 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138
How do you go about proving a negative?

Ask Darwin. "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down..."

You should be aware that every example of irreducible complexity from Behe's original formulation has become reducible with research.

As I said before, that's EXACTLY as it should work.
313 posted on 01/06/2006 11:15:04 AM PST by Antoninus (Jesus Christ is Lord. Alleluia!)
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To: js1138
By what standard or logic or human experience do you declare something impossible?

Well, at what point do you decide that it's effectively impossible for Mount Rushmore to have been sculpted by unintelligent forces alone?

317 posted on 01/06/2006 11:54:33 AM PST by inquest (If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
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