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Irreducible complexity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2752 words) |
 | Irreducible complexity is a controversial concept which considers that the generally accepted scientific theory that life evolved through biological evolution by natural selection alone is incomplete and flawed, that it contradicts the second law of thermodynamics, and that some additional mechanism is required to explain the origins of life. |
| As such irreducible complexity is seen by the supporters of evolutionary theory as an example of creationist pseudoscience, though Behe does not explicitly affirm creationism in his book and specifically notes that he accepts the age of the earth and evolution by natural selection in other respects. |
| Irreducible complexity asserts that, in order for any of the components of the system to function, all components of the system must have been present, but Intelligent Design proponents presentation of the facts has been criticized and there are, in fact, a number of ways in which this mechanism could have evolved [1]. |
| Encyclopedia4U - Irreducible polynomial - Encyclopedia Article (594 words) |
| In mathematics, the adjective irreducible means that an object cannot be expressed as a product of at least two non-trivial factors in a given ring. |
| It is helpful to compare irreducible polynomials to prime numbers: prime numbers (together with the corresponding negative numbers of equal modulus) are the irreducible integers. |
| The existence of irreducible polynomials of degree greater than one (without zeros in the original field) historically motivated the extension of that original number field so that even these polynomials can be reduced into linear factors: from rational numbers to real numbers and further to complex numbers. |
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