Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed

Episode 1475 July 07, 2021 00:20:08
Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed
Intelligent Design the Future
Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed

Jul 07 2021 | 00:20:08

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future, author and biologist Michael Behe discusses with host Andrew McDiarmid how the once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Behe suggested in his ID classic Darwin’s Black Box—and indeed, even more complex than his review of cilia in his update in 2007. At the time Behe described cilia as “irreducible complexity squared.” But as noted in a recent article at Evolution News, even more layers of sophistication in cilia and their Intraflagellar Transport (IFT) system have now been discovered. So, does that mean we are now looking at irreducible complexity cubed? Listen in as Behe and McDiarmid revel in the engineering sophistication of this fascinating molecular machine, and discuss why, more than ever, it appears to point away from any form of mindless evolution for its cause.

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