Tag: flagellum

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, assembly, bacteria, basal disk, Campylobacter jejuni, domain swapping, evolution, fact check, flagellar system, flagellum, folding, headlines, Imperial College London, intelligent design, mathematical plausibility, microbiology, Morgan Beeby, PflC proteins, propellers, proteases, proteins, swimming, transitions, undirected processes}

Fact Check: Has a Study Shown “How Bacteria Evolved Powered-Up Propellers”?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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This is a classic case of the media overstating the evidence for some evolutionary claim. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 17, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, biologists, Charles Darwin, complementarity, evolutionary theory, flagellum, genotype, head, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, males, meiosis, middle piece, mitosis, modifications, podcast, sex, sexual reproduction, sperm cells}

Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 17, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, acrosin, acrosome, acrosome phase, bacterial flagellum, calcium ions, cap phase, capacitation, cervix, Daniela Nicastro, DNA, dyneins, egg cell, ejaculation, fertilization, fertilized egg, flagellum, foresight, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Golgi phase, haploid genome, Harvard University, human reproduction, hyaluronidase, infant, intelligent design, intent, intercourse, Irreducible Complexity, Jianfeng Lin, middle piece, mitochondria, ovum, reproductive tract, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cells, teleology, uterine tubes, uterus, zygote}

No. 9 Story of 2023: Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 24, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

8}

Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Arachnida, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, chelicerates, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, dependency graph model, England, eurypterids, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, Parioscorpio venator, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, respiratory organs, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, spinnerets, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, whip scorpions, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

72}

True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, bacterial cells, chloroquine, confirmation bias, crickets, Dave Farina, debates, evolution, flagellum, FleQ, Google, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, malaria, Michael Behe, NtrC, Professor Dave Explains, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, science educators, The Edge of Evolution, Twitter, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

My “Debate” with Professor Dave

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

On Twitter, Dr. McLatchie took some time to engage in an exchange with Farina, which reflects the quality of the latter’s thinking, such as it is. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 3, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, acrosome, antibodies, ATP, capacitation, cilia, clotting factors, contraceptives, egg, enzymes, evolution, fibrin, flagellum, foresight, fructose, head, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, middle piece, reproductive tract, seminal fluid, seminal vesicles, sperm cells, zona pellucida}

The Design of the Seminal Fluid and Sperm Capacitation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 3, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine

6}

There is no cause in the universe that is known to have such a capacity of foresight other than intelligent design. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, acrosin, acrosome, acrosome phase, bacterial flagellum, calcium ions, cap phase, capacitation, cervix, Daniela Nicastro, DNA, dyneins, egg cell, ejaculation, fertilization, fertilized egg, flagellum, foresight, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Golgi phase, haploid genome, Harvard University, human reproduction, hyaluronidase, infant, intelligent design, intent, intercourse, Irreducible Complexity, Jianfeng Lin, middle piece, mitochondria, ovum, reproductive tract, seminal fluid, sperm cells, sperm flagellum, teleology, uterine tubes, uterus, zygote}

On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 30, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

8}

Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, evolution, eye, flagellum, Harvard University, Jason Rosenhouse, Leo Kadanoff, physical processes, probabilities, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), stochastic processes, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant

_{William A. Dembski
September 2, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

4}

If you deny that probabilities apply to a physical process, you’ve abjured science — you no longer have a scientific theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 23, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, aging, ATP synthase, bacteria, biophysicists, catalysis, cells, cilium, DNA, EMBO Journal, Emily Reeves, Evolution News, flagellum, geometry, molecular machines, nanomachines, Nature Communications, nitrogenase, RNA, Rubisco, Science (journal), Switzerland, topoisomerases, type III secretion system, UC San Diego, University of Basel, Unlocking the Mystery of Life}

Yes, a “Host of Machines” Are at Work in the Cell

_{David Coppedge
August 23, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

9}

Here are more cellular machines to dazzle us with their moving parts and functions. Read More ›

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post

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, Brownian motion, entropy, flagellum, intelligent design, microtubules, National Institute of Standards and Technology, PNAS, Science (journal), Simon Fraser University}

Life Fights Entropy with Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
June 8, 2021

Intelligent Design

7}

Consider: the best minds in science and engineering are trying to approach the capabilities of bacteria. Read More ›