Posted: Apr 18, 2022 11:19 pm
Calilasseia wrote:hackenslash wrote:What's that? You didn't know irreducible complexity is a prediction of the theory of evolution? Surely one of the knowledgeable people hereabouts has furnished you with the requisite information to aid you in your assessment. I've not been around for quite a while, and it's my first venture into the creationism forum proper since I returned, but Calilasseia is usually very on the ball about such things, and I find it hard to believe that he'd suffer such an oversight. It really doesn't sound like him at all but, as you say, you're being fair and balanced, so clearly the blame for this deficiency lies elsewhere.
Indeed, if you search for the term "Müllerian Two Step" in association with my name under "advanced search", you'll find I have no less than 13 posts covering this matter, many of them presenting the same paragraph from Müller's 1918 paper where the genuine concept of "irreducible complexity" was first presented. The easliest of these posts was my exposition on the bacterial flagellum posted way back in March 2010. The other 12 posts cover a 5 year span between 2010 and 2015.
To be fair, Wortfish didn't join until October 2016, so some of that past oeuvre of mine may have failed to come to his attention, but I suspect it won't now.
It amazes me just how many biological traits/parts can be dispended with by evolution to facilitate adaptation.