I've found some information regarding the syringe from Miller himself:
'This means that a portion of the whip-like bacterial flagellum functions as the "syringe" that makes up the Type III secretory apparatus. In other words, a subset of the proteins of the flagellum is fully-functional in a completely different context – not motility, but the deadly delivery of toxins to a host cell. This observation falsifies the central claim of the biochemical argument from design – namely, that a subset of the parts of an irreducibly complex structure must be, "by definition nonfunctional."
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/d...ticle.html
I think I've established that this is an incorrect assumption by Miller regarding subsets having a function of their own.
'This means that a portion of the whip-like bacterial flagellum functions as the "syringe" that makes up the Type III secretory apparatus. In other words, a subset of the proteins of the flagellum is fully-functional in a completely different context – not motility, but the deadly delivery of toxins to a host cell. This observation falsifies the central claim of the biochemical argument from design – namely, that a subset of the parts of an irreducibly complex structure must be, "by definition nonfunctional."
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/d...ticle.html
I think I've established that this is an incorrect assumption by Miller regarding subsets having a function of their own.
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
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