Synaesthesia

I was reading Mark Twain’s letter to earth the other day, and a rather odd consideration struck me.

Those who believe in irreducible complexity agree that many systems could have evolved, and only some can be said to be irreducibly complex. It is in ignorance of exactly how these systems evolved that it is argued that God created them.

Let us suspend our rationality for a moment and accept the ID argument from ignorance. Irreducibly complex systems are indeed the work of a designer and they reflect it’s nature. I quote Clemens,

“Shem was full of hookworms. It is wonderful, the thorough and comprehensive study which the Creator devoted to the great work of making man miserable. I have said he devised a special affliction-agent for each and every detail of man's structure, overlooking not a single one,
and I said the truth.”

So what of those irreducibly complex pathogens that are wonderfully designed to inflict unimaginable horror and suffering? How consistent are advocates of the willful watchmaker in dealing with the monstrous clockwork of Kafka’s irreducibly complex harrow, bed and scribe?

Regards,
Synaesthesia

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ShakyJake

Most creationists will say that such things were created "after the Fall" or by Satan himself.

Synaesthesia

Shakey,

I'm actually directing this specifically at advocates of IC. The point of developing the idea was to show that certain biological systems could ONLY have come about by an act of special creation on the part of an intelligent agency.

If it is admitted that IC proved intelligent design, the implication is that the seeming designs of parasites are as much due to the creator as the flaggelum and eye.