Study Challenges Evolutionary Relationship Between Flagellum and Type III Secretory System

ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, Cell (journal), Darwin's Black Box, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Evolution, Howard Ochman, human technology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jiaxing Tan, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover, last bacterial common ancestor, Michael Behe, molecular machines, motors, Nature Reviews Microbiology, New Scientist, propeller, pumps, rotary engine, Salmonella, Sophie S. Abby, T3SS, University of Arizona
There are various types of flagella, but all function like a rotary engine made by humans. Even non-ID scientists marvel at the complexity of these machines. Source
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Credulity Is the Soil for Darwin’s Tree

acetyl coenzyme-A, amino acids, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, anaerobic bacteria, Communications Biology, Darwin-skeptics, E. coli, enolase, enzymes, Evolution, Frontiers in Microbiology, FtsH, FtsY, glucogenesis, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, Heinrich Heine University, Joana C. Xavier, last bacterial common ancestor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LBCA, LUCA, miracles, naturalism, phosphoglycerate kinase, Powerball, pyruvate kinase, ribozymes, spores, sporulation, transfer RNA, triosephosphate isomerase, William Martin
The secret is to restrict one’s explanations for life to unguided natural events. Once that decision has been made, everything else flows deductively from it. Source
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