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?

kairosfocus PS, we have been playing a game against nature here since 1995. Not all have survived the volcano experience. Similarly,... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus VL, look above at the implications of suggestions made in the thread. And, some do make that assertion out there.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Bob O'H Querius @ 167 - So yes, my hypothesis is that all “junk DNA” has a function, though likely to have... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Silver Asiatic Isaiah 45:7 The Hebrew words used for peace and evil in this verse are shalom and ra. The word shalom... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
Viola Lee And what exactly was "confessed"? And whoever said randomness required a flat distribution? – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
martin_r as to communists, war, biology and other stuff, let me add this short David Attenborough style parody video about Russian... – Is China seriously contemplating [imminent?] invasion...
kairosfocus F/N: A Wikipedia confession: In common parlance, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of pattern or predictability in events.[1][2]... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET How is it not trivial, Fred? From Ernst Mayr, in "What Evolution Is": Do selection and elimination differ in their... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Fred Hickson ...natural selection is non-random in a trivial sense in that not all variants have the same probability of being eliminated.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET seversky: Has there been a time when the mainland Communist regime has not been contemplating the invasion of Taiwan? Yes – Is China seriously contemplating [imminent?] invasion...
ET Ram: Your version of God has to be held responsible for everything (Isaiah 45:7) What if I don't have a... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
polistra We're bombing our own people and every country except China.. China has been attacking only its own people for a... – Is China seriously contemplating [imminent?] invasion...
ET Fred Hickson: Googling got me this: https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/112/2/287/2415796 Something for Upright Biped to ponder. Adaptive semiotics! LoL! It's a given that... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
asauber Yeah, Fred is a Troll. It has no interest in having an actual discussion. Andrew – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Fred Hickson: I doubt Professor Coyne claims evolutionary processes are purely random. Are you just a complete idiot? No one... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Fred Hickson: Better to have made clear that natural selection is non-random rather than assuming it Wow. Again, for the... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Fred Hickson: It’s pointless trying to discuss biology with you. Nice projection! You appear to be ignorant of biology and... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET JVL: The point isn’t that one is different from the rest That is the point. the point is that there... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
asauber "But I don’t see what point you are trying to make here." Jholo, @11 you declared "the heart is just... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
kairosfocus Jerry, could, would, did are three very different things. The evidences of design are manifold and manifest; save, to those... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry I have a question, actually two questions. But first background. The fine tuning of the universe is so incredibly unlikely... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...