Bilbo Defends' Behe's Irreducible Complexity

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Bilbo

Then let’s be clear: Behe has responded on the Internet to recent criticisms from scientists. He just hasn’t responded on the Internet to your criticisms or Art’s.

No, that is not correct.

@Bilbo

Lastly, your claim that Behe has different definitions of ID, and this somehow poses a major problem for him. To be honest, I don’t see how it does. Assume his first definition is the one to go with. Where’s the problem for him?

The first definition:

@swamidass

IC1 – one way to objectively measure the complexity of any system, including biochemical systems, independent of the inference whether or not a specific level of complexity is evolvable.

The problem is that we have observed in the laboratory (and in the wild) the evolution of IC1 systems. This has been directly falsified. IC1 tells us nothing about the evolvability of organisms.