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In his book No Free Lunch, William Dembski makes the case for intelligent design by arguing that the bacterial flagellum, thanks to its apparent irreducible and specified complexity, could never have been produced through evolution. To support his argument, Dembski presents a calculation for the flagellum, which he describes as a “discrete combinatorial object”. According…http://blog.beliefnet.com/scienceandthesacred/files/import/flagellum.jpg