Irreducible Complexity is the main argument Intelligent Designers use against Evolution. It says that evolution can't explain how complex systems evolve since the intermediate steps wouldn't be useful to species. Well, according to Evolution Of Irreducible Complexity Explained, "Using new techniques for resurrecting ancient genes, scientists have for the first time reconstructed the Darwinian evolution of an apparently 'irreducibly complex' molecular system."
Of course they did this for how the hormone aldosterone work which isn't as readily understood by the layman as how flagella work, so I'm sure people will still cling to the pseudo-science.
"The stepwise process we were able to reconstruct is entirely consistent with Darwinian evolution," Thornton said. "So-called irreducible complexity was just a reflection of a limited ability to see how evolution works."
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I am going to risk coming across like I believe in intelligent design (which I don't) ..... but I have always wondered how flight and feathers and birds evolved. Intermediate steps...like feathers but not in the shape of an airfoil....or feathers but no wings. Is this an intermediate step in the realm of irreducible complexity? While evolution makes sense...and is provable..it is hard to understand some traits....like flight and feathers....in terms of evolution. I guess I don't know enough about it.
There are a lot of bits of evolution we don't know. Flying fish, flying squirrels, and bats always surprised me.
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