Tag: flagellum

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antimalarial drugs, bacterial flagellum, Casey Luskin, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, chloroquine, competence, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), Elysia chlorotica, endosymbiosis, evolution, flagellum, FleQ, gene deletion, genes, Google, intelligent design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, malarial parasite, Michael Behe, motility, mutations, Nathan Lents, Paramecium tetraurelia, Petri dishes, photosynthetic algae, Pseudomonas fluorescens, scout mindset, soldier mindset, The Edge of Evolution, Twitter, Vaucheria litorea, youtube}

Let’s Educate “Professor” Dave Farina on Evolution and Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 17, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Failing to acknowledge mistakes when they are pointed out to you is one of the surest signs of “soldier mindset.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, Caenorhabditis elegans, Chlamydomonasuse, cilium, Darwin's Black Box, electron micrograph, evolution, flagellum, Gaia Pigino, intelligent design, intraflagellar transport, Irreducible Complexity, Kirsty Wan, Ludek Stepanek, Michael Behe, microalgae, mousetrap, organelles, oscillators, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pronk, Science (journal), springbok, University of Cambridge}

Galloping Flagella and Cilia Railroads — Celebrating Darwin’s Black Box

_{David Coppedge
August 4, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These organelles, protruding from the cell into the environment, could not be built by a Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›

Sperm and egg cell. Natural fertilization. 3d illustration on red background

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 11, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, cell division, Charles Darwin, complexity, engineering, evolution, evolutionary theory, flagellum, forethought, head, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, middle piece, podcast, regulation, resources, sex, sexual reproduction, sperm cells}

Sex: A Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 11, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Sexual reproduction is a seeming waste of resources producing little or no short-term advantages. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, assembly, bacteria, evolution, fact check, flagellum, headlines, Imperial College London, intelligent design, mathematical plausibility, microbiology, propellers, proteins, swimming, 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

6}

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

2}

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
, bacterial flagellum, calcium ions, cervix, DNA, egg cell, fertilization, flagellum, foresight, Harvard University, human reproduction, infant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, middle piece, mitochondria, ovum, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cells, teleology, 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, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, England, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, 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, chloroquine, confirmation bias, crickets, Dave Farina, debates, evolution, flagellum, Google, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, malaria, Michael Behe, 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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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 3, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, antibodies, ATP, cilia, egg, enzymes, evolution, flagellum, foresight, head, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, middle piece, seminal fluid, sperm cells}

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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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, calcium ions, cervix, DNA, egg cell, fertilization, flagellum, foresight, Harvard University, human reproduction, infant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, middle piece, mitochondria, ovum, seminal fluid, sperm cells, teleology, uterus, zygote}

On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 30, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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