CONSIDER THIS: How The Mouse Trap Points To Two Key Facts About Reality
Consider the simple mouse trap: It’s made up of five discrete parts, which together have one and only one function – to catch and kill unwary mice. A mere five parts to perform one job. Take away any one of the five parts and what’s left is a pile of useless wood and metal.
So simple, but so effective.
Similarly, separate the five parts and then reassemble them in a sequence that differs from the one that produced the functional mouse trap. The result is another useless bunch of parts.
Plus, with this one, you get a reply from the U.S. Patent Office to your patent application, saying “Nope, this is not a better mousetrap. In fact, it’s not even a better pile of useless wood and metal.”
So, what’s the point here, you ask? What we’ve just witnessed is a fine illustration of two fundamental principles of the universe in which we all live. The first is Irreducible Complexity and the second is Originating Information.
Irreducible Complexity is seen in the fact you must assemble the five parts in a specific sequence or you don’t get a mousetrap. Or, as one of your wiseacre friends who came over to help you assemble that new piece from Ikea might say, “follow the instructions, dummy.”
Those instructions are the Originating Information. That is, what is the sequence of assembly that produces a functioning mousetrap? Or an Ikea table that doesn’t fall apart?
Now ask yourself this: What is required for both Irreducible Complexity and Original Information? The answer, as is wonderfully illustrated in the following “Long Story, Short” video episode from the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, is a Designer. Or to be more precise, an Intelligent Designer. Check it out:
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