Monday, December 12, 2011

Is irreducible complexity a textbook example of confirmation bias?

What these creationists have done is focused only on a couple of examples of organic life forms that they think can鈥檛 have come about by a process of random mutations and natural selection over vast periods of time. They鈥檝e ignored over 30 million other species of life and focused only bacteria flagellum and the bombardier beetle. You guys know what confirmation bias is right? Well, you should now because I鈥檝e just given you a perfect example of it.|||Yes, I do believe you are right. Of course, the irreducible complexity argument is invalid anyway, but creationists can's seem to stop using it. I guess they had to pick something they could try to make look like it supported creation. It's very sad.|||Well, perhaps...


But it's a fallacious argument from ignorance to begin with, and so worthless.


Basically, the claim is: "We don't know how this 'complex' system could have evolved (mainly because we haven't bothered to actually study it or read scientific papers on it), so god did it!"





Worthless nonsense.





Peace.|||You're not going to convince a creationist of much of anything beyond their rigid stance, and they may just say anything or grasp at any straw to try and legitimize their beliefs. It's probably best not to let it get to you.|||No, but not getting the joke probably is.

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