Evolution and structural diversity of the MotAB stator: insights into the origins of bacterial flagellar motility

Creationists love to cite the bacterial flagellar motor as an example of what they call an 'irreducibly complex' structure that could not possibly be a product of evolution. This paper demolishes this absurd notion by definitively showing that the bacterial flagellar motor is almost certainly a result of evolution.

Creationists are a sorry lot. They can find no real evidence of a god that created anything, so they resort to pointing at things that science does not yet explain and claiming that those things cannot be explained by science so God must have created them. But science plods along and eventually finds that more and more of these things can be explained without God or any other supernatural entity. Science squeezes God into a smaller and smaller space so that if God exists, then it certainly isn't important or influential in our lives. It is a waste of mind to believe in this entity.

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