gjm comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 05 October 2015 01:32:33PM 1 point [-]

"The" bacterial flagellum (actually there are different kinds and I think only one kind is relevant here) was a leading example used by proponents of "intelligent design", who claimed it was a complex system that couldn't possibly have evolved incrementally.

Comment author: CCC 06 October 2015 09:45:17AM 0 points [-]

Thanks. A brief googling suggests that biologists have figured out how it could have evolved from similar organs with different functions, which seems to neatly solve the issue.