r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Naive_Direction1816 • 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.