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Posted by dito107 on August 22, 19100 at 00:21:20:
In Reply to: Re: Response to Chatterbox posted by Joseph on August 21, 19100 at 23:45:43:
In a recent note in the Journals of Science Philosophy, Michael Behe had to acknowledge that redundant complexity, and not irreducible complexity, may be responsible for the blood clotting process. Experiments with gene "knock-outs" in mice could eliminate the genes for the blood clotting agents. Any one line is basically "hemophilic". But, once you crossed the lines the resulting individuals, having two genes missing, are once more normal.
Now, this set of experiments do not disproof IC altogether, but has taken one of Behe's favorite examples out of the table.
A different set of researchers using an even more complex example, photsynthesis, showed how this metabolic process could be decomposed and how different evolutionary lines of plants have various components. Both field observation, and experimentation have left IC completely out of the picture in this, the most basic metablism for life on Earth (at least ours).
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