The Flagellum is Not a Motor?

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@bjmiller

However, if so few solutions exist in both the search space for human engineering and for biological systems that such similar designs appear in both engineering and biology, then the chances of nature stumbling upon one of them is nil, since functional combinations would be so rare. In summary, the fact that the flagellum matches so closely with a known design logic means that it can better be understood as a predefined target corresponding to a rotary motor than a haphazardly fit together collection of proteins which just happened to function as a motor.

@bjmiller doesn’t say the flagellum is a rotary motor, he says the flagellum has a correspondence to a rotary motor. And he certainly doesn’t say that “the entire flagellum is a motor” nor does he say that “the flagellum is a rotary engine.” Those are misrepresentations of what he said.

Please try to do better.