Tag: bacterial flagella
Richard Dawkins’s English Inquisition
There are several funny things about the interview Dawkins gave the BBC to describe his new “scientific” survey.
At North Dakota State University, Presenting the Positive Case for Design
Two issues of note dominated the Q&A: the Type III Secretory System (T3SS) as a supposed evolutionary precursor to the bacterial flagellum, and whether the Cambrian explosion really was an actual event in the history of life.
Engineering at Its Finest: Bacterial Chemotaxis and Signal Transduction
The bacterial flagellum represents not just a problem of irreducible complexity. Rather, the problem extends far deeper than that. What we are now observing is the existence of irreducibly complex systems within irreducibly complex systems.
Listening to Butterflies
The metamorphosis of butterflies represents “the magic of reality,” in Richard Dawkins’s wonderful phrase, where actual, not made-up or fictional, biology is so astonishing that its power to move us never goes away.