The evolutionists’ favorite whipping boy, Intelligent Design, is the subject of innumerable attacks in the press and on evolutionary websites. But one of my favorite examples of evolutionary nonsense is the "rebuttal" to Michael Behe’s analogy that many biochemical systems are as irreducible as a mousetrap. In order to disprove this analogy (and I guess, thereby disproving Behe’s theory of irreducible complexity), this "reducibly complex" mousetrap site was created.
Now, others have done a better job of explaining how a functional mousetrap might develop, while others have answered such critiques. Round and round we go. You can even read an interview w/ Behe, the "Mousetrap Man."
This example also points out that using non-living machines designed by people are not the best analogies when trying to prove that living things are designed.
NOTE: I updated this post after being shown how the trap is supposed to work at this stage.
No, you should file it under illiteracy. Read it again. Nobody is going to squeeze it when the mouse pops his head out. The two ends of the wire are holding tension from the spring. When they're jostled, the ends slip apart, and the spring closes.
This is only a metaphor, to combat the original metaphor, saying that it would be impossible to reduce a mousetrap. Neither of them says anything meaningful about evolution or Intelligent Design.
Ahhh, now I see. That makes a little more sense. I have updated the post.
Quote: Now, others have done a better job of explaining how a functional mousetrap might develop, while others have answered such critiques.
The functionality is actually the problem here. Both are assume that the function of a mouse trap to catch mice is
aided by an increase in complexity but that is factually wrong.
The truth is the most functional mouse isn't the tradition mouse trap but a far far more reduced machine so there would be no need to evolve complex snap traps if functionality was the selecting force.
Here is the most effective kind of mouse trap: http://www.victorpest.com/canada/rodents.asp#Vict…