Science v Intelligent Design: The reducible bacterial flagella

flunked.jpgMy second example in this very educational series is how science explains the origin of the bacterial flagella.

Science Explains

Erv asks and Science explains. First of all thanks to Erv for providing us with a ‘transcript’ of Dembski’s lecture

“Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum” Nick Matzke 2003

Background to “Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum” Nick Matzke

Pallen MJ, Matzke NJ. “From The Origin of Species to the origin of bacterial flagella.” Nature Reviews Microbiology, 4(10), 784-790. October 2006. (pdf)

Intelligent Design Explains

William Dembski, 2007 in Dembski v the masked man