Refuting Behe's Critics, Meyer Gives Four Reasons the Flagellum Predates the Type III Secretory System
David Klinghoffer
Michael Behe's signature argument in Darwin's Black Box
would be seriously bruised if it turned out the bacterial flagellar motor had a simpler evolutionary antecedent. Critics of intelligent design thought they had identified such a precursor in the form of the Type III Secretory System, found in some bacteria.
Behe and others have since shown why it's far likelier that the flagellum is the precursor, thus leaving Dr. Behe's argument intact. In response, the critics either simply repeat their claim as if it hadn't been refuted, or they go silent -- an implicit admission they were wrong, and Behe was right.
How exactly do we know the flagellum came first? In a 12-minute video discussion, Stephen Meyer explains that we know this for four good and independent reasons. Watch for yourself, and if you're still not convinced, let me know why not. (Reach me by clicking on the orange EMAIL US button at the top of this page.)
Mike Behe's case for ID from irreducible complexity has stood the test of fire by scientists and others whose picture of reality depends on denying that biology bears evidence of design. We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Darwin's Black Box with a new hour-long documentary written and directed by John West, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines
. Get your copy of Revolutionary, on DVD or Blu-ray, today.
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