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Essay:Best New Conservative Words (view source)
Revision as of 03:19, February 9, 2011
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|[[irreducible complexity]]
|[[irreducible complexity]]
|1935
|1935
|coined by [[Alan Turing]]<ref>http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/nasty-feelings-in-the-ool-community-toward-yockey/</ref> and later adopted by [[Michael Behe]]. A structure or system that could not possibly have evolved, because removing any part makes it nonfunctional, thereby showing that [[God]] must have created it whole into biology; if the [[Nobel Prize]] were not dominated by [[atheism]], Behe could win one for this insight.
|coined<ref>[[Alan Turing]] reportedly used the term for a completely different meaning that went nowhere. [http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/nasty-feelings-in-the-ool-community-toward-yockey/]</ref> and later adopted and developed by [[Michael Behe]] to describe structure or system that could not possibly have evolved, because removing any part makes it nonfunctional, thereby showing that [[God]] must have created it whole into biology; if the [[Nobel Prize]] were not dominated by [[atheism]], Behe could win one for this insight.
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