[extropy-chat] Intelligent Design and Irriducible Complexity

[Kurt Schoedel]

The amusing thing about the "Intelligent Design" croud is that their 
arguments can be used against them. 

The creationists argue that biological systems so complex, irriducibly 
complex that they simply cannot have evolved through natural processes. 
So they say, biology had to have been designed. The problem, of course, 
is that the designer itself is an example of an irriducibly complex 
system that the designer itself had to have been designed by another 
designer, and so on. this is an example of an infinite recursion. When 
you point this out to creationists, they tend to go bananas on you. 

The effect is really quite entertaining.


Kurt Schoedel
MetaTechnica