However the design in living organisms has far exceeded our most painstaking efforts. Bacteria propel themselves using flagella, filaments propelled by a true rotary motor. This motor is only the size of a virus, thus far smaller than anything man- made. Yet it can rotate at over 1000 times per second. But even this impressively tiny motor is not the tiniest in God's creation.
Living cells have many molecules that are mini-machines and chemical factories enzymes .
One enzyme 4 has been shown to spin 'like a motor' to produce ATP, a chemical which is the 'energy currency' of life. The enzyme, which has nine protein components, is so tiny that 100,000 million million would fill the volume of a pinhead. Also, when driving a heavy load, it probably changes to a lower gear, as any well-designed motor should. One of the Nature articles was appropriately entitled 'Real Engines of Creation'. J.B.S. Haldane claimed in 1949 that evolution could never produce 'various mechanisms, such as the wheel and magnet, which would be useless till fairly perfect.