khan
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| Quote (stevestory @ Mar. 11 2013,15:07) | | Quote (REC @ Mar. 11 2013,13:59) | Bill-collecter Barry's knowledge of engineering history is as bad as his understanding of evolution:
| Quote | | For example, the bolt holding the battery in place is NOT part of the core. We can remove that bolt, and the battery will flop around, but the car will still run. The battery itself, on the other hand, is part of the irreducibly complex core. Anyone who has ever turned the key on a car with a dead battery knows, no battery equals zero function. |
Barry provides a better example than I've previously heard of why defining irreducibly complex as "remove a part and it breaks" is really stupid. You can remove a battery from a modern car, and the car doesn't work. But this does not address that in the 'evolutionary' history of the car, the battery was NOT an essential component of the 'ancestral' engine. It is an additional feature of a machine that got more complex over time. |
Or if the car is a standard and you always park on a hill..
(speaking from personal experience as a former broke undergrad who had a $1000 240sx) |
Having owned a '68 VW Bug and a '73 MG Midget, I always parked on a hill.
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