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Author Topic:   What could/would falsify Irreducible Complexity?
Zucadragon
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Message 24 of 72 (456866)
02-20-2008 1:41 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by tesla
02-20-2008 1:06 PM


if carbon atom is a carbon atom, is that not its simplest form? if you cannot reduce it, is it not irreducible? if it cannot be made any less complex, is that not irreducible complexity?
How complex is an atom, do you have any means to measure its complexity, or make an estimate at least?
Does more atoms equal more complexity or just more atoms together ?
If so, does anything causing a higher quantity cause higher complexity at the same time ?
Atoms are not visible to the naked eye
Humans are made up of atoms
Therefore, humans are not visible to the naked eye
have i committed the fallacy, or have you?
Atoms are not visible because no wavelength of visible light is small enough to bounce back from the atom, electron microscopes (like the SEM) though uses electrons, electrons have a much much smaller wavelength and can be used to "see" individual atoms.
Just because you don't see atoms, doesn't mean they don't exist and there is a point where so many atoms are bonded that there will be an object which is visible in light of a normal wavelength.

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