Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a reducible manner.
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- adverb In a
reducible manner.
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+This post also has a very nice diagram of the reducibly complex clotting system that Ken Miller discusses section 4, “An Irreducible Core”.
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+This post also has a very nice diagram of the reducibly complex clotting system that Ken Miller discusses section 4, “An Irreducible Core”.
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My assumption is that evolution, development with an extra time (life cycle) dimension may be as well reducibly complex.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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+This post also has a very nice diagram of the reducibly complex clotting system that Ken Miller discusses section 4, “An Irreducible Core”.
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Development also is enormously complex with multicellular organisms devloping from a single fertilized egg, and even though we hardly understand how it happens (it would also need a systems approach), I can see it as a perfect little molecular machine and eventually reducibly complex.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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To the contrary, not a single example of IC in Darwin's Black Box has been shown to be reducibly complex.
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To the contrary, not a single example of IC in Darwin's Black Box has been shown to be reducibly complex.
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If irreducibly complex biostructures are described as distinctly unevolvable, then the inference is that reducibly complex biostructures are evolvable, otherwise the distinction is merely doubletalk.
Jonathan Wells: Who is He, What is He Doing, and Why? - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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For example, pick a reducibly complex structure and remove as many bits as you can without breaking it.
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Unfortunately for Wells and Behe, a cottage industry has sprung up making reducibly complex mousetraps, so this illustration has lost its force.
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