[tacticalogic]

Think of it in terms of A) non-Life creating life = impossible B) even if you start with the first self-replicating proto-cell, materialist evolution still = impossible.

"Irreducible complexity" looks like it only addresses (A). (B) makes assumtions about what the limitations of capabilities of that first self-replicitating proto-cell had to be.

[GodGunsGuts]

As the paper states, whether you start with inorganic matter, or whether you start with a first proto-cell, autopoieses (self-making) renders naturalistic evolution impossible.