Reducibly Complex

I got cut-off in traffic today on my way to classes. Twice. Both times, I was cut off by somebody that did not respect the right-away rule at 4-way stops. Both times, I honked at them. Both times, I was given the finger.

This made me realize something. When something happens in traffic, some controversy of some kind, if I am in the right and I want to tell the person how I feel, I never give them the finger. I usually give them a thumbs up, as if to say “Nice going, ass-clown.” Or I will point to my temple to say “THINK!” But never the finger. The only time I give the finger is when I’m too flustered to think of something else, which is when I have done something wrong (and know it).

I’m a good driver (and, I admit, an aggressive one). But I occasionally make a mistake in traffic. Everyone does. But to give somebody the finger, at this point, just doesn’t do anything. It’s a way of saying “I don’t care what you think.” If you care about making the other person know they were wrong, you don’t give them the finger, you make them feel stupid (because they are).

With that in mind, I realized today that I am never going to be offended or apologize about a traffic incident if the other person gives me the finger. Instead, I’ll take it as an admission from the other person that they are wrong, stupid, shouldn’t be allowed to drive a car, or all three.

Don’t give the finger. It’s dumb, and you admit you’re wrong.

So, it’s been a very long time since I’ve updated my blog. Long-story made very short, I’ve had little time. I would say that I’m going to start updating this thing again, but I don’t know that I can live up to that promise right now. I will be making a new “Science of Yesteryear” in just a few minutes, so hopefully that will hold you over until I have time again to do something more creative.

So, it’s been a long while since I’ve been able to post to the blog. I just finished moving (actually, I still haven’t even come close to being unpacked), and it has sucked most all of my spare time out of me for the last month.

Rest assured…NEW POSTS SOON!

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What does “Reducibly Complex” stand for?

Reducibly Complex is based on the argument of Irreducible Complexity that comes from intelligent design proponents. Simply put, irreducible complexity states that many organisms or organic structures are so complex that they could not possibly have evolved through natural selection, but instead must have been “designed” by an intelligent agent. For example, there are many intricately connected components to the human eye, so many so that to take away one component would render the eye useless and thus all of the components would have to have been developed at the same time, rather than evolving slowly over millions of years (as evolution predicts). However, the argument falls apart when one looks at the eye’s function when one of these components is taken away; contrary to irreducible complexity, the eye can still function, though to a diminished degree, even if one or several of its components are removed. This is only one of many examples; the notion of irreducible complexity is falsifiable and is thus wrong.

As I am a human, the result of billions of years of evolution, I am a wonderfully complex organism. Nevertheless, my complexity is reducible, as many excellent scholars have shown.

Thus, I am Reducibly Complex.