Evolution: What We Don't Know?

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One of my biggest pet peeve arguments I come across when discussing evolution with a particularly devout religious person who disbelieves evolution because of their faith is the argument of irreducible complexity. This argument started by William Paley with the famous Watchmaker argument has stuck around since his criticism in the late 1800s of

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Well said. The "if x is imperfect then y must be the case" is a very lazy argument.

I find it politics a fair bit as well. Especially, I regret to say, socialist politics.