Uncommon or Common Descent?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@EricMH

However, there is no need to invoke a halting oracle or intelligent designer to understand complexity theory.

Please explain. If chance and necessity cannot create complex structure, what else can?

The Mullerian Two Step (Irreducible Complexity: the Mullerian Insights - 100 yrs ago! - #2 by gbrooks9).

@EricMH

But where they are wrong, is in stating that this complexity necessitates a designer.

This is exactly where they are right. Numerous mathematical laws show complex structure cannot result from chance and necessity. These are the ones I know:

• Data processing inequality
• Law of information non growth
• Non-computability of Kolmogorov complexity
• Sparsity of the Kolmogorov minimal sufficient statistic

Something beyond chance and necessity, such as a halting oracle, is necessary for complex structure. Naturalists are on the wrong side of math.

None of these theories tell us that information or complexity requires a designers. Some of them tell us precisely the opposite.