Behe Counters the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt 3

Episode 1654 September 26, 2022 00:26:28
Behe Counters the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt 3
Intelligent Design the Future
Behe Counters the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt 3

Sep 26 2022 | 00:26:28

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future biologist Michael Behe and Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn conclude their conversation (posted by permission here) about some of the best objections to Behe’s central case for intelligent design. One objection Behe and Flynn tackle in this episode: the idea of evolution overcoming the irreducible-complexity hurdle through co-option. That is, maybe the precursors to what would become one of today’s molecular machines, such as the bacterial flagellum motor, co-opted simpler machines being used for other purposes, allowing evolution to build a bacterial flagellum motor one small step at a time over thousands or millions of generations, even though the completed bacterial flagellum ceases to function at all when just one of its many key parts Read More ›

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