BIOL 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Irreducible Complexity, Intelligent Design, Flagellum

• School: York University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1001
• Professor: Tamara Kelly

Document Summary

Cannot be observed- we can only observe the effects of intelligent design, not the designer. We can never identify the designer (process), nor make any hypothesis. I(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)t desig(cid:374) is a theor(cid:455) that life or the u(cid:374)i(cid:448)erse (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e arise(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)e & (cid:449)as desig(cid:374)ed by some intelligent entity. The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of universe & of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. No changes have been made based on any evidence to contrart. Teaching of creationism in public school curriculum is constitutions b/c creationism= religion. Use of ter(cid:373) (cid:862)i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)t desig(cid:374)(cid:863) rose i(cid:374) pro(cid:373)i(cid:374)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e; the use of (cid:862)(cid:272)reatio(cid:374)is(cid:373)(cid:863) de(cid:272)li(cid:374)ed. Irreducible complexity; probability & lack of transitional fossils. An object cannot become simpler without being non-functional complex structures cannot have evolved from simpler structures- formations of human eye, bacterial flagellum, protein function. Therefore, evolution cannot be correct & id must be correct.