Tag: flagellum
The Danger of Capitulating to “Settled Science”: Cambridge University Press Book Misrepresents ID
The book is marred by major errors on irreducible complexity, the bacterial flagellum, and more.
Flagellar Diversity Challenges Darwinian Evolution, Not Intelligent Design
Behe’s case for ID goes back nearly twenty years now, yet the objections to it have not evolved much in that time.
Why the Type III Secretory System Can’t Be a Precursor to the Bacteria Flagellum
Matt Baker thinks he’s found a flagellar component that can function outside the flagellar system and that this refutes irreducible complexity.
Biophysicist Matt Baker Is an Intelligent Design Critic Who Doesn’t Understand Irreducible Complexity
Seeking to counter Behe’s argument in Darwin’s Black Box, the article purports to explain how the bacterial flagellum is the result of Darwinian evolution.
Five Years Later, Evolutionary Immunology and other Icons of Kitzmiller v. Dover Not Holding Up Well
Judge Jones might not realize it, but in a recent article in the York Dispatch he admitted that his ruling in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case amounted to judicial activism. He stated: “The decision seems to be holding up well … No other school district has engaged in this kind of a battle. I hope that’s a product of the decision and perhaps the way that I wrote the decision.” As Lawrence Baum writes in his book American Courts: Process and Policy, “[w]hen judges choose to increase their impact as policymakers, they can be said to engage in activism; choices to limit that impact can be labeled judicial restraint.” By admitting that he sought to impact the policy decisions of Read More ›