Behe Answers the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt. 1

Episode 1651 September 19, 2022 00:30:13
Behe Answers the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt. 1
Intelligent Design the Future
Behe Answers the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt. 1

Sep 19 2022 | 00:30:13

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe addresses what Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn considers some of the best objections to Behe’s central intelligent design argument. As far back as the 1996 book Darwin’s Black Box, Behe has argued that certain features in biology are irreducibly complex. That is, they require numerous essential parts, each carefully fitted to its task and integrated with the other parts, in order for the molecular machine or system to function at all. Two examples are the bacterial flagellum motor and the blood clotting cascade. Such systems are, in Behe’s Read More ›

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