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Proof of God in nature?

Through the microscope, we observe the E. coli bacterial flagellum. The bacterial flagellum is what propels E. coli bacteria through its microscopic world. It consists of about 40 individual protein parts including a stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, and propeller. It's a microscopic outboard motor! The individual parts come into focus when magnified 50,000 times (using electron micrographs). And even though these microscopic outboard motors run at an incredible 100,000 rpm, they can stop on a microscopic dime. It takes only a quarter turn for them to stop, shift directions and start spinning 100,000 rpm in the opposite direction! The flagellar motor has two gears (forward and reverse), is water-cooled, and is hardwired into a signal transduction (sensory mechanism) so that it receives feedback from its environment.

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When we apply the general principles of detecting specified complexity to biologic systems (living creatures), we find it reasonable to infer the presence intelligent design. Take, for example, the bacterial flagellum's stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, and propeller. It is not convenient that we've given these parts these names - that's truly their function. If you were to find a stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, or propeller in any vehicle, machine, toy or model, you would recognize them as the product of an intelligent source. No one would expect an outboard motor -- much less one as incredible as the flagellar motor -- to be the product of a chance assemblage of parts. Motors are the product of intelligent design

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Furthermore, the E. coli bacterial flagellum simply could not have evolved gradually over time. The bacterial flagellum is an "irreducibly complex" system. An irreducibly complex system is one composed of multiple parts, all of which are necessary for the system to function. If you remove any one part, the entire system will fail to function. Every individual part is integral. There is absolutely no naturalistic, gradual, evolutionary explanation for the bacterial flagellum.

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This is something which darwin couldnt explain and failed

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Many of you who have limited knowledge of science do not answer for you do not know who i am or what i do

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Wow! Interesting perspective.

    GOD bless

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    so, this proves a creator how? stop calling it intelligent design, stop trying to make it sound like science, its not its in a crusty old book you can't prove, look i can't show you evolution indeed not of e.coli nor on a macroscopic level i can how ever show you MRSA (methicillin resistant stapholococcus aerus) and how it has evoluved, now wise guy show me a pile of dirt turn into a fullly 'designed' human being, can you do that? no then evolution has more credabiltiy thus far.

    and you seem intent on e.coli interesting, if this is such a perfect world why does it exist? think about it, it makes humans 'god's finest creation' ill it can even kill. why would god do that? and why is there no mention of bactiria or virus in the bible, oh thats right the bible is 2000 years old and they didn't know about germs or for that matter dinosaurs so they have both been omitted, germs where not discovered until 1864

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Irreducible complexity is a lie. Keep tryin', brother!!!

    http://www.talkorigins.org/

    The Mullerian Two-Step: Add a part, make it necessary (or, Why Behe's "Irreducible Complexity" is Silly)

    A simple and concise explanation for why the anti-evolutionary argument from "irreducibly complexity" is flawed — gradual evolution by natural selection readily evolves "irreducibly complex" structures.

    "In most biological cases an irreducibly complex system will not be the simplest irreducibly complex system that could perform the same function. For instance, the same function may be performed by two systems of unequal complexity in two different organisms. Comparative molecular biology has demonstrated that many non-redundant genetic systems (i.e. IC systems) in one given species indeed are performed by more simple systems in other organisms. Furthermore, in innumerable cases many, if not most, biological systems are in fact genetically redundant (i.e. they are not IC). "

  • 1 decade ago

    Claim:

    Bacterial flagella and eukaryotic cilia are irreducibly complex, Since nonfunctional intermediates cannot be preserved by natural selection, these systems can only be explained by intelligent design.

    Response:

    http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB200_1.html

  • 1 decade ago

    don't make some vague reference to how accomplished or smart you are. just say who you are and what you do if you want to establish your expertise here. i don't care if you're michael behe himself, your argument can still be wrong, and i happen to think that it is in fact wrong. go on, ask me who i am.

    for the sake of argument, let's say your intelligent designer exists. why does it have to be (your) God, rather than time travelling humans, intelligent aliens, or any one of the thousand other gods humans have worshiped over the years?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Even if this does prove that a God exists (it doesn't; see above) how does this prove your God exists?

    Prove that this is the work of Yaweh and not Quetzlcotl, Lord Brahma, Zeus or Jo-boo.

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree.

    The lack of credible challenges come from years of poor training in a public education that is bent on eradicating God. The first step is to remove critical thinking.

  • Jack
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    i know enough about you to know you don't know what you're talking about. You are trying to prove god by a process of elimination - that doesn't cut it dude. Just because something does or doesn't exist does not prove there's a god.

  • Wow - that is pretty impressive. Too bad humans haven't as of yet been able to harness them for a useful purpose! I wonder what God's original intent may have been when He made them.

  • 1 decade ago

    "Many of you who have limited knowledge of science do not answer for you do not know who i am or what i do"

    I know you have a big ego

    Why not try posting this in biology section so people who actually know about this kind of stuff can discuss it with you?

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