motility – Uncommon Descent

Cell biology Darwinism Intelligent Design

Paper on bacterial mobility (motility) doesn’t invoke “evolution”

Which raises a question: How much outgassing about “evolution” is intended to stifle curiosity and make it sound like we know things we don’t?

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