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Proponents of Intelligent Design make much of alleged instances of \u201cirreducible complexity\u201d. A colleague drew to my attention an article that deals with the evidence that such complexity is indeed \u201creducible.\u201d It has the catchy title \u201cThe reducible complexity of a mitochondrial molecular machine<\/a>.\u201d Those interested in this subject will want to take a look.<\/p>\n

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Proponents of Intelligent Design make much of alleged instances of \u201cirreducible complexity\u201d. A colleague drew to my attention an article that deals with the evidence that such complexity is indeed \u201creducible.\u201d It has the catchy title \u201cThe reducible complexity of a mitochondrial molecular machine.\u201d Those interested in this subject will want to take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nReducible Complexity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Proponents of Intelligent Design make much of alleged instances of "irreducible complexity". 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