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Bio-Motor That Drive Flagella of Spirochete

07/27/2014 12:33 PM

This is simply amazing engineering! Accidental or by design?

http://jb.asm.org/content/191/16/5026/F3.expansion.html
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07/27/2014 1:30 PM

Not design; but not exactly accidental, either.

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07/27/2014 1:35 PM

Forgot to add the whole abstract link...

http://jb.asm.org/content/191/16/5026.full
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07/27/2014 1:41 PM
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07/29/2014 4:16 AM

Ask Richard Dawkins - apparently it's all down to serendipity, just a few million beneficial mutations!
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07/29/2014 10:36 PM

4,000,000,000 / 2740 years = 145,985,401 mutations

I suppose it is possible...beautiful chemical engine design tho.
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Re: Bio-Motor That Drive Flagella of Spirochete

07/29/2014 10:57 PM

No that's wrong...

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/may/amber-discovery-indicates-lyme-disease-older-human-race

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/03/010328075426.htm

15,000,000 / 2740 years = 5474 mutations

I suppose it is possible to make a flagella go round and round in that many mutations.

Beautiful little chemical engine tho!
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07/29/2014 11:39 PM

Where does Dawkins say that? I think you are leaving out part.

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10/16/2014 1:50 AM

WOW !!!

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