Another great episode in the flagellum evolution series

Jon Perry latest video in his ongoing series on why scientists think bacteria flagella can evolve, is on how proteins accomplish their functions, and is up now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoqXfIZQ67I

I can't recommend this series enough. As usual there are some creationists crying in the comments that Jon has yet to declare to them how the flagellum evolved (which, if he did, they'd still just cry snot about is "a just-so story"*), but I fully support his decision to take the viewer through the required basics of both evolution and the requisite biochemistry.

That way it leaves to room for them to respond with "but you haven't explained how X" when the series eventually completes. All the required knowledge will have been put forward to make an genuinely curious person willling to learn, able to put it all together themselves and understand why the scientific community is pretty much unanimous that flagella are evolved molecular machines.

* And "goddidit" isn't a just so story?

Posted Apr 29, 2026, 7:04 AM UTC

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