Bacterial flagellum
At Bio-Complexity: An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 3 – Observations
Why a mechanic infers design. Karsten Pultz explains
Bacterial flagellum: Engineering design constraints
Researchers: The last bacterial common ancestor had a flagellum
Dawkins’s thesis that the bacterial flagellum evolved from the injectisome is no longer tenable, prof says
Best depiction yet of the bacterial flagellum
We are the “irreducible complexity” community, they now say
So fine tuning of the universe for life goes right down to the level of the atom?
What? An honest admission about the bacterial flagellum from Darwin-driven biology?
Matzke is Back on the Flagellum Horse
In October 2006, Nick Matzke, a name not unfamiliar to denizens of UD, and Mark Pallen co-authored a review article for Nature Review of Microbiology regarding the status of research into the evolutionary origins of the bacterial flagellum. Matzke and Pallen felt the need to write such an article because since the publication of Michael Behe’s book “Darwin’s Black Box” ten years prior, there had been much hand waving and hand wringing over exactly what is the evolutionary explanation for the seemingly irreducibly complex flagellar system. Matzke’s first line of attack prior to the ’06 article was to lurk various discussion threads and offer up lists of studies that supposedly provided the very thing that Behe said was nowhere to Read More ›
Behe was right: Bacteria eject flagella to avoid starvation
Here’s an example of what Michael Behe is (actually) talking about in Darwin Devolves The evolution strategy “Break or blunt any functional coded element whose loss would yield a net fitness gain”: Eleven authors writing in PLOS Biology found that “γ-proteobacteria eject their polar flagella under nutrient depletion, retaining flagellar motor relic structures.” When there’s nothing to eat, these bacteria are willing to toss off their flagella and plug the hole in order to save energy. If you were out on a lake, would you unlatch your new Yamaha F250 4.2-liter V6 outboard motor and let it drop to the bottom? You might if the boat was taking on water and was about to sink, and you were about to Read More ›
Survival at a price: Bacteria cut off flagella to stay alive
Design Disquisitions: Critic’s Corner-Kenneth Miller
This week’s post at Design Disquisitions is the first in a series of articles entitled ‘Critic’s Corner’ where I focus on a critic of ID. The main purpose of these posts is to document their work relevant to ID and also to document the direct responses to the particular critic in question, by those sympathetic to ID. These posts will be a useful resource for anyone wanting to find responses to a particular ID critic. This first one is on the work of Kenneth Miller (no stranger to anyone involved in this debate of course). If there are any articles I have missed, do let me know and I shall add it to the page.