Inside one of the bacteria that have a compass and a motor …


By Rhiannonw
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Machines, machines, machines galore:
molecular machines to guide things and store.
Organised production lines for growth and for feeding,
energy transfer, and all they are needing
to harvest, import, safely store iron (toxic – beware),
and grow compass crystals in compartments with care,
place on firm scaffold across the cell,
to send information to motors to tell
them how/when to move and rotate the propeller
(flagella).
The motors though tiny have
bearings, and shafts, switches and sensors,
universal joints, lubricators, capacitors.
– none of which could develop bit by bit –
useless until fully formed, formed to fit
and work so well. The crystals of such quality
sought after for medicine and industry.
Three-dimensional chemical complexity,
beautiful structure, amazing activity!
Darwin stated: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”
J B S Haldane, the famous evolutionist claimed that evolution could never produce “various mechanisms such as the wheel and magnet, which would be useless until fairly perfect.”
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I like this one.
Informative to say the lease. I enjoyed this one.
William E Alexander
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Cytology
I had biology as a major in high school, didn't like human anatomy and physiology at all, but when we started with cytology, the study of cells that was marvellous. It was science-fiction really fascinating, and last we did ecology and plant science, also not bad.
As for the origins of life it is a matter of faith really either way, the “scientific explanations” are also. In the sciences we are trained to choose the simplest theory consistent with the facts.
Your description is beautiful really, gripping, magic, truly appeals to imagination.
All the best Rhiannon! Tom Brown
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