I don't just mean resilience after the fact, but finding ways to incorporate this concept into how we plan, invest and behave, particularly because some of the biggest hard knocks we face are obscured by largely irreducible complexity and uncertainty.
My ideas about irreducible complexity and intelligent design are entirely my own.
Scott covers it all, including "irreducible complexity" and microevolution vs. macroevolution (Chapter 9), Haeckel's embryos and the origin of "information" in DNA (Chapter 10), peppered moths and claims about "fairness" (Chapter 11), and Darwin, eugenics, and Hitler (Chapter 12).
But, if one visits Behe's web page on the Lehigh University web site, one finds the following disclaimer: My ideas about irreducible complexity and intelligent design are entirely my own.
Proponents of "Intelligent Design" use the eye as an example of "irreducible complexity" and claim to challenge Darwinian evolution with such questions as, "could the human eye be the result of chance"?
Intelligent design proponents attempt to demonstrate scientifically that features such as irreducible complexity and specified complexity could not arise through natural processes, and therefore required repeated direct miraculous interventions by a Designer (often a Christian concept of God).
A final comment on "irreducible complexity" and "intelligent design".
All this is not to suggest that OORT is a problem of "irreducible complexity" and that the systems of replication and translation could not emerge by means of biological evolution.
In the years since Behe proposed irreducible complexity, new developments and advances in biology, such as an improved understanding of the evolution of flagella, have already undermined these arguments.
It's as much philosophy as life narration, and insists on the irreducible complexity of human experience, and especially our experiences of sex and gender.
