Twenty Years of "Revolutionary" Machines: The Case of ATP Synthase

It was a Eureka! moment. When Michael Behe saw that diagram of a bacterial flagellum in his biochemistry textbook, he says, "That's an outboard motor! That's designed. That's no chance assemblage of parts." Thousands of other students must have ignored the obvious, or else meekly accepted what their professors told them, that natural selection was capable of creating such things. But Dr. Behe self-admittedly has a stubborn streak that wouldn't tolerate simplistic answers. From such qualities...