How do you feel theories such as irreducible complexity fit in with evolution?

Question: How do you feel theories such as irreducible complexity fit in with evolution?

Asked by biology1 to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 20 Mar 2010 in Categories: Theories.
- Kay Penicud answered on 22 Mar 2010:
  
  In my opinion it fits well with a theory of directed evolution. That a higher power (e.g. God) created the world and his mechanism for species development was evolution. But as he had some influence over how evolution panned out, thats where irreducible complexity comes in!
- Kerstin Zechner answered on 22 Mar 2010:
  
  Irreducible complexity has been shown to be nonsense actually… people have shown that many features in organisms such as the flagellum in bacteria aren’t actually irreducibly complex and that the genes that code for the building blocks of it, actually had separate functions earlier in evolution. Some people supporting this theory use a mouse trap as an example of something irreducibly complex. However, those supporting evolution have been able to create tie clips, slingshots etc from the mousetrap, making that example totally irrelevant.
- Olivia Hibbitt answered on 23 Mar 2010:
  
  Hey biology1,
  
  I think the only theories that ‘fit’ with evolution are those that have been properly tested and published in peer reviewed journals….irreducible complexity is part of the intelligent design argument that has never been tested or published…..it says that some things are just too complex to have evolved such as the eye or flagellum, but there is overwhelming evidence of the evolution of these things…..it jsut doesn’t hold up against the evidence!

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lydllelemon commented on 23 Mar 2010:

how can you prove that they had different functions … surely each part of a cell has spectific genes that tell it exactly what it’s job is?

Question: How do you feel theories such as irreducible complexity fit in with evolution?