Lenski’s new results; Behe’s red herring

Richard Lenski is an evolutionary biologist who studies evolution by analyzing changes in bacterial populations.  Perhaps he is most famous for his long-term experiment where his group identified a population that evolved to use a nutrient (citrate) that E. coli normally can’t use.  This was a very important finding as it provided proof-of-concept that random [...]

The flagellum’s clutch means less design

 

Bacterial Flagellum

Daniel Kearns and colleagues have found that bacterial flagellum(pictured here courtesy of Access Research Network) has the equivalent of a clutch. The Discovery Institute wasted no time in proclaiming that this is more evidence for intelligent design.  In a June 30, 2008 post entitled More Similarities Between Flagellum and Human-designed Machines, Casey Luskin states:
It [flagellum] functions like [...]