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100 Reasons to Choose Biblical Creation Over Evolution
22. Where Did the Flagella Come From?
The flagellum is a tiny whip-like appendage found on one-celled organisms such as certain bacteria. Like the cilia, this structure appears simple at first blush, but when viewed under a powerful electron microscope, a whole new picture emerges. Although there is no complete understanding how these tiny motors work, many studies have deduced the presence of a rotor, bushings, a rod, and hook. Only commitment to the evolution story would cause a person to deny the clear evidence of design in this remarkable mechanism.
Walt Brown describes the mechanism inside these engineering marvels:
"These extremely efficient, reversible motors rotate up 100,000 revolutions per minute…The motors, having rotors and stators, are similar in many respects to electrical motors…Because the bacteria can stop, start, and change speed, direction, and even the propeller's shape, they probably have intricate sensors, switches and control mechanisms…Eight million of these bacterial motors would fit in the circular cross section of a human hair." Walt Brown, "In the Beginning", 7th ed, p.17
Like the cilia, these wonderful examples of living technology could not have arisen by natural process alone. The vacuum in evolutionary literature explaining the origin of the flagellum attests to this factA. They must have been created.
22.Where Did the Flagella Come From? - Notes and References
A. "The general professional literature on the bacterial flagellum is about as rich as the literature on he cilium, with thousands of papers published on the subject over the years…yet here again, the evolutionary literature is totally missing. Even though we are told that all biology must be seen through the lens of evolution, no scientist has ever published a model to account for the gradual evolution of this extraordinary molecular machine." Behe, "Darwin's Black Box", p.72