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Type III Secretion System

During the Dover trial, proponents of Darwin’s theory claimed that the Type III Secretion System needle complex refuted Michael Behe by showing how the flagellum could have evolved from a simpler structure through a Darwinian process. But the scientific evidence now shows that the needle complex originated after the flagellum had already developed.

Sophie S. Abby and Eduardo P.C. Rocha, “The Non-Flagellar Type III Secretion System Evolved from the Bacterial Flagellum and Diversified into Host-Cell Adapted Systems”

Casey Luskin, “Why the Type III Secretory System Can’t Be a Precursor to the Bacterial Flagellum”

Scott Minnich and Stephen Meyer, “Genetic Analysis of Coordinate Flagellar and Type III Regulatory Circuits in Pathogenic Bacteria”

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