Communication Itself is Irreducibly Complex

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One of the most aggravating concepts for Darwinoids is irreducible complexity, a concept that Michael Behe of the Intelligent Design movement named, but biblical creationists have been using for years. Essentially, everything must be in place and fully functional at the same time, or nothing works.

Evolutionists try to get around the problem, but although they may find weaknesses in some examples, the concept itself is still is a serious problem for them. They cannot explain how necessary components evolved through time, chance, and mutations. Communication is irreducibly complex.

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Communication requires expression, reception, and comprehension. (Note that in this definition, communication is one way. A two-way communication would be a conversation.) Trees and other plants in the Wood Wide Web have special nonverbal communication, and critters like birds and prairie dogs sound calls of alarm or help.

Verbal communication between people really drives the irreducible complexity point home. The physiological mechanisms of both speech and hearing (in unimpaired people of course) as well as the brain centers for processing need to be in place all at once. Clearly, the Master Engineer gave us communication, and evolution cannot explain it.
Communication is something that we can easily take for granted, and yet this pervasive attribute of living things represents bedrock evidence for intelligent design.

Communication, to be effective, always includes three features.
  1. Expression
  2. Reception
  3. Comprehension
Effective communication necessitates and relies upon the operation of all three features. A lack of any one of these causes communication to fail. In short, effective communication is irreducibly complex.

When we refer to communication, we usually imagine people talking and listening, or someone reading what another has written, or maybe we’re listening to a music performance. Beyond ourselves, however, communication saturates the animal kingdom in myriads forms. Insects also communicate. Even within biological organisms, at the cellular level, communication forms an integral part of sustaining our physical being.

See what is happening right now? We are communicating, and the link is worthless: It won't click itself. To read the rest of the article, follow "Communication, in Human Life and Beyond: An Irreducibly Complex Design." You may also like a related article, "Language Itself Testifies of the Creator."