| Neal J. Cohen, Howard Eichenbaum - 1993 - Страниц: 1182
...modifications?" Well, for starters, a system that is irreducibly complex. By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched,...removal of any one of the parts causes the system to cease functioning. An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly ... by slight, successive... | |
| Thomas Dubay - 1999 - Страниц: 372
...system which is composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system...functioning. An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced gradually by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, since any precursor to an irreducibly... | |
| Phillip E. Johnson, Denis Lamoureux - 1999 - Страниц: 180
...complexity was first defined by Michael Behe in Darwin's Black Box (1996): By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched,...interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, 62 wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.... | |
| John Polkinghorne - 2008 - Страниц: 224
...Darwinism is incapable of solving. His central idea is that of irreducible complexity, which he defines as 'a single system composed of several wellmatched,...of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning'.10 Behe describes five biological examples of what he believes are such irreducibly complex... | |
| David Ray Griffin - 2000 - Страниц: 368
...paltry in comparison" (DBB, 46-47), but also, more importantly, irreducibly complex, by which Behe means a single system composed of several well-matched,...causes the system to effectively cease functioning. (DBB, 39) Spelling out the negative implications for neo-Darwinism, Behe adds: An irreducibly complex... | |
| Michael Ruse - 2004 - Страниц: 260
...have been produced by blind unguided law. That is just a fact of nature. By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several wellmatched, interacting...irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly (that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism)... | |
| Niles Eldredge - 2001 - Страниц: 228
...on which he prefers to concentrate lies in the molecular (chemical) level and in general "refers to a single system composed of several wellmatched, interacting...causes the system to effectively cease functioning" (p. 39). Anatomically speaking, an eye might struggle along with removal of one or more of its parts,... | |
| William A. Dembski - 2002 - Страниц: 476
...complexity needs to be revised as follows: Definition ICj — A system is ineduably complex if it is composed of several well-matched, interacting parts...the basic function, wherein the removal of any one or more parts effectively prevents the system from maintaining its basic, and therefore original, function.... | |
| James Franklin Harris - 2002 - Страниц: 458
...natural selection. Here is the way that Behe describes such systems: By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several wellmatched, interacting...irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly (that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism)... | |
| Gordon Graham - 2002 - Страниц: 216
...concept on which his argument is based is that of'irreducible complexity'. By irreducibty complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched,...irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly (that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism)... | |
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