More on Refuting Irreducible Complexity with a Tie Clip

Michael Flannery commented yesterday on Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller's claim to have refuted a major argument for intelligent design. How? By using a mousetrap as a tie clip.

The idea is that Miller's tie clip purportedly demonstrates that Michael Behe's example of the mousetrap as an irreducibly complex (IR) apparatus (comparable in this respect to the bacterial flagellum with its own IR design) fails by a simple analogy. In other words, what we see now as a complete bacterial...