Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA, March 3rd, 2005
Skeptical about the claims of "intelligent design"? To try and win you over, professor Michael Behe would show you a diagram of the biological marvel that is the flagellum.
Perhaps you were shooting spitballs when your biology teacher covered the flagellum and other means of cell locomotion. Let me get you up to speed.
The flagellum is a whip-like filament sticking out the back end of certain one-cell organisms. Behe's interest is in a particular bacterium, one that simply twirls its flagellum and swims off in a toilet bowl, in sputum or in wherever bacteria like to splash around.
While the...
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