Umbrellas, Penguins, and Rosa Rube

Oh Dear -- Rosa is at it again!!!
...and this time she is claiming that a recent article found in "ScienceDaily" completely refutes Michael Behe and Irreducible Complexity, much to our confused dismay.

Here is the link to the Science Daily:
Attaching the propeller: How the motility structure of unicellular archaea is fixed to their surface

"Researchers demonstrate how the motility structure of the unicellular archaea is fixed to the cell wall of archaea – a type of unicellular life form. In addition, the researchers demonstrated that this protein is essential for the structure and functioning of the organ.

It is important for microorganisms to be able to move on their own: When their living conditions deteriorate, they are then capable of finding better ones on their own. The motility structure of bacteria, the flagellum, has been the object of detailed research for more than 30 years. It consists of up to 50 proteins assembled according to a fixed sequence of events. The result is a whip made of protein filaments that functions much like a propeller: A "motor" at the end fixed to the cell wall allows it to rotate, enabling the bacterium to swim.

Up until only a few years ago, scientists assumed that archaea also use flagella to move. However, the sequencing of the first archaeal genome revealed clear differences in the structures of the motility structures of bacteria and archaea. It was found that archaea use a structure called the archaellum to swim. In the model organism Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, it consists of a mere seven subunits but still achieves the same performance as the flagellum despite this simple structure. Only few structural studies of the subunits that make up the archaellum have been conducted to date. Two years ago Albers' research team discovered the structure of the motor protein FlaI and demonstrated that it forms the motor complex of the archaellum along with the proteins FlaX and FlaH. In their newly published article, the researchers describe the protein FlaF, which binds specifically to the model organism's only cell wall protein and fixes it firmly there. "It is important to learn more about these cell wall and surface structures, since the archaea can use them to interact with the environment -- and thus also with human cells," says Albers."

"Rosa" clearly hasn't read this paper or even understood the implications of the "Pop-Science" write up, as Michael Behe and Irreducible Complexity are not mentioned at all. 

Good reason for that -- as the alternative system is not a  precursor to any known flagellar system and the archaellum is really it's own "IC" system developed completely independent of the flagellar system and does not in any way contradict IC at all.

Humorously,  this assclown "Rosa" presents the ScienceDaily article as if it's some great new discovery in her usual "Haha, Gotcha" form, but we (the ID Community) had actually known about this and commented 2 years ago -- it's simply old news. 

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/02/more_about_cili069261.html

"So here scientists have elucidated another irreducibly complex "outboard motor" that is assembled out of complex proteins according to a genetic plan. Yet this motor does not appear to be related to anything else within archaea. Evolutionists would not expect evolutionary sharing between two different kingdoms of life, even if some of the building blocks are the same. Moreover, within archaea, the archaella are "highly conserved" in this supposedly archaic, primitive kingdom of microbes. Furthermore, the organism they studied, Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, has not just one, but three archaella. Add to that the fact that these motors need to assemble and work in hot springs and highly acidic conditions, and the only logical inference is intelligent design."

Rosa Rube is ultimately synonymous with "Irrelevant Journalism".