The Flagellum is Not a Motor?

[Timothy_Horton]

@Michael_Callen

Tim, really, it looks and acts like a motor. It turns a propeller of sorts that propels the bacterium. It should be okay to use that label. What’s over the top is to posit that because something works like a motor, it was intelligently designed and must point to a creator. Everyone should stand their ground where it’s important. Calling something a motor, like Howard Berg did is just fine

The problem we all have is the dishonest equivocation in the ID argument that all motors are designed. I have no problems calling anything a motor as long as the IDers make it clear they understand motor does not equal designed.

I’m pretty sure I made the same point back when this flagellum nonsense resurfaced days ago.

ETA: Here it is in a reply to SCD on the other thread

@SCD

if we will go by wiki definition: a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy". why do you think that definitions will help in this case?

That is not the biological definition. In biology a motor is any muscle, nerve, or center which produces movement.

You are equivocating over definitions. That is not good science.