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Image credit: Illustra Media.

Popular YouTube Science Educator Professes “Emotional” Response to “Amazing” Flagellum

In the video, engineer Destin Sandlin explains how he became captivated after watching an online animation of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›
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Image source: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (screen shot).

RuvAB: Another Elegant Molecular Motor Visualized

This machine looks like something out of a CAD/CAM project, but it’s found in bacteria. Read More ›
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Photo: A leaf hopper, by Cowli33, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›
bacterial flagellum
Image credit: Illustra Media.

Get a Load of This Souped-Up Hyperdrive Magnetotactic Bacterium

"MO-1 is a magnetotactic bacterium capable of orienting its cell body along the geomagnetic field lines by using magnetosomes." Read More ›
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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

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. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe, by Chris Morgan.

Listen: Michael Behe Answers Your Questions About Intelligent Design

What are some new examples of irreducibly complex systems? What are some objections to ID from well-known critics? Read More ›
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In Episode 3 of Secrets of the Cell, Michael Behe Tests “The Power of Evolution”

The planthopper bug has gears in its legs that permit it to jump what in human terms would be like vaulting the length of two football fields at one go. Read More ›
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Behe and Swamidass Debate Evolution and Intelligent Design at Texas A&M

When Michael Behe’s slide show flashed to a close up of the gears, a murmur of astonishment rolled through the audience. Read More ›
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Making Predictions Against Design

From back when I was a sophomore taking biochemistry, one particular event stands out in my memory, perhaps because it was such an odd thing. Read More ›

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