Flagellate me!
Apparently God does his best work on nasty, crude little things.
According to The New York Times, an expert witness in the Dover, Pa. intelligent-design case testified that:
...the "best and most striking example of design" is the bacterial flagellum, "the outboard motor bacteria use to swim." He projected a drawing of a flagellum depicting what he called a "rotary motor" attached to a "drive shaft" that pushes a propeller, and said it was impossible avoid concluding that the mechanism was "a purposeful arrangement of parts."
So you see, they're intelligent-designed, and they're not even God's favorite, so it's a scientific theory after all!
The argument in this testimony can be as convincing as it is ridiculous. The example is perfect, because a larger, more complex organism would challenge ID with vestigal organs and convoluted bodily processes (and I imagine many other things outside my narrow knowledge of biology)—things that suggest organisms are slowly patched together as they mutate and adapt.
Onward, spirited little vermin!
According to The New York Times, an expert witness in the Dover, Pa. intelligent-design case testified that:
...the "best and most striking example of design" is the bacterial flagellum, "the outboard motor bacteria use to swim." He projected a drawing of a flagellum depicting what he called a "rotary motor" attached to a "drive shaft" that pushes a propeller, and said it was impossible avoid concluding that the mechanism was "a purposeful arrangement of parts."
So you see, they're intelligent-designed, and they're not even God's favorite, so it's a scientific theory after all!
The argument in this testimony can be as convincing as it is ridiculous. The example is perfect, because a larger, more complex organism would challenge ID with vestigal organs and convoluted bodily processes (and I imagine many other things outside my narrow knowledge of biology)—things that suggest organisms are slowly patched together as they mutate and adapt.
Onward, spirited little vermin!
posted by Scott at 1:25 AM
1 Comments:
Yes—
What I'm saying is that in this case, someone is making an example of a "perfect" creature to support the idea of intelligent design, but that imperfections show how plants and animals gradually adapt to their environments and needs—more or less by accident.
Does the sarcasm obscure my argument?
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