Irreducible complexity is one of the ideas I've heard used to attempt to dispute the theory of evolution many times. Someone's even brought it up here. Here's how the argument goes. Suppose a biological system consists of multiple parts and the only way the system is benefitial to the organism is if all the parts of the system are present and none of the parts are benefitial to the organism unless all are present. The creationist's argument is that such a biological system is not able to have evolved from a simpler predecessor, and thus must have been created by an "intelligent designer" AKA god.

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Countless times I've whitnessed fundamentalist christians saying things like this to show how "absurd" the idea of evolution is:

"Could I convince you that I dropped 50 oranges onto the ground and they by chance fell into ten rows of five oranges? The logical conclusion is that someone with an intelligent mind put them there. The odds that ten oranges would fall by accident into a straight line are mind-boggling, let alone ten rows of five."

Dropping 50 oranges on the ground is supposed to be analogous to evolution.

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I've been told many times that since we can't prove the fact that God doesn't exist, I'd at least have to be agnostic. The word "agnostic" comes from Greek - "a" = "without" and "gnosis" = "knowledge". It seems like no one knows for a fact whether or not exists, so being agnostic, would make sense. Here are my thoughts on the subject.

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Many christians have often attempted to use Pascal's Wager to explain to me why I should believe in God. As a matter of fact, I've seen some variations of it in some of the comments posted on this blog. To those unaware, here's how Pascal's Wager is usually presented by Christians:

"If you don't believe that God exists, you risk going to hell, and don't have a chance at gaining anything from that belief. If you do believe in God, you do not risk anything, and have a chance of going to heaven in case if God does actually exist."

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