Tag: bacterial flagellum
Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models
Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking.
Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It
Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it.
Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On
Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective.
Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution
Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems.
New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum
The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach.