Many critics have insisted that evolution can produce irreducibly complex structures, pointing notably to the example of Avida, a computer model demonstrated in a 2003 Nature paper.
On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with Dr. Winston Ewert about his article that was published recently in the journal BIO-Complexity. Dr. Ewert’s paper criticizes a number of computer programs that purport to show that irreducible complexity could result from random, unguided evolution. He finds that “The prediction of irreducible complexity in computer simulations is that such systems will not generally evolve apart from intelligent aid” and this prediction “has thus far stood the test in computer …
The design inference essentially seeks to prove a conditional: that if the development of life is highly improbable under any Darwinian scenario, then we are justified in inferring design.
ENV asked the Evolutionary Informatics Lab to respond to a critique of the work of William Dembski by geneticist Joe Felsenstein at the University of Washington.