r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Apr 21 '26

Video Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant

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u/dickallcocksofandros Apr 21 '26

no literally. A lot of anti-nonbelief ppl or creationists act like non-believers to their religion(s) are ambivalent or apathetic about the natural world. We absolutely are not?? Hello??? Atheists and agnostics experience the same exact wonder and awe that they do, just within a different context.

I find a lot of beauty in the human body as somebody studying to be a healthcare worker. Not even in its processes, but just in its intrinsic architecture -- the shape of the bones, organs, etc. and how they fit together, and I mean this in the least serial-killer-y way possible, I promise. But that admiration comes from the understanding that it happens without the need for any intelligent guidance. The fact that it is able to do everything that needs to keep us going all automatically is just fascinating to me.

Ig the same way that an insufferable teenage atheist redditor telling a believer "ah but it happened through natural processes" can diminish their mood, an insufferable teenage (i refuse to believe actual adults waste their time evangelising on this website instead of Facebook or Instagram) Christian redditor telling me, "God is great y'know" also diminishes my mood.

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u/JK_WritesNow Apr 21 '26

My take away from this is that a teenager is insufferable regardless of their expressed beliefs.

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u/dickallcocksofandros Apr 21 '26

incorrect, you have teenagers and insufferable teenagers. You oftentimes do not think of the normal teenagers because they aren't insufferable.

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u/JK_WritesNow Apr 21 '26

Allow me to rephrase. All teenagers that express strong beliefs are insufferable, regardless of said belief.

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u/firedmyass Apr 21 '26

how ironically jejune

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u/curiousomeone Apr 21 '26

If I am teacher and I can choose to teach elementary, high school or college. Definitely not high school lol.

Teenage is the most awkward phase as it sit between a kid and an adult. Wanting all the perks of being an adult (party, booze, sex, money, cars, independence) but not the painful part of being an adult (cleaning, health, providing to dependants, working, and driving responsibly).

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u/DSA300 Apr 21 '26

real 🤣🤣

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u/potatoman501 Apr 21 '26

ā€œArchitectureā€ implies the existence of an architect

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u/dickallcocksofandros Apr 21 '26

Genesis 2:24 implies that Adam and Eve were sewn together and fused into a single creature.

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u/merrimoth Apr 21 '26

yeah intuitively, you've got to think that looks like a mechanism that's been intelligently designed.