Why focus on the bacterial flagellum?
The natural sciences concern themselves with a vast diversity of physical, chemical and biological processes that transform some system of interest from an initial state (i) to a final state (f). Evolutionary biology, for example, deals at length with the processes by which organisms, employing their own functional and transformational capabilities and interacting with both their physical and ecological environments, change in the course of time. Substantial progress has been made in the scientific effort to become acquainted with the numerous processes relevant to evolutionary transformations, but even more remains to be discovered and comprehended. The vast majority of Dembski s argumentation in No Free Lunch focuses the reader s attention on his particular concept of the way in which these transformational processes might be limited and constrained by the logical and mathematical requirements of information theory. In Dembski s judgment, the scientific community has been lax in its
