A lot of things in nature seem to defy irreducible complexity, e.g. flowers, insect wings, web spitting spiders. Irreducible complexity is still the correct explanation why many things don’t exist, e.g. a large animal which shoots a swarm of wasps as its enemies would be very adaptive in theory, but doesn’t exist because it’s hard to evolve.
But I was wrong to imply that irreducible complexity predicts/proves balloon-algae shouldn’t exist. It’s really just my explanatory model of why balloon-algae doesn’t exist, given the hindsight information that there is no balloon-algae.
But how do you distinguish this argument from other arguments that prove false things?
Hmm you’re right, that’s a good point!
A lot of things in nature seem to defy irreducible complexity, e.g. flowers, insect wings, web spitting spiders. Irreducible complexity is still the correct explanation why many things don’t exist, e.g. a large animal which shoots a swarm of wasps as its enemies would be very adaptive in theory, but doesn’t exist because it’s hard to evolve.
But I was wrong to imply that irreducible complexity predicts/proves balloon-algae shouldn’t exist. It’s really just my explanatory model of why balloon-algae doesn’t exist, given the hindsight information that there is no balloon-algae.