[tallhappy]

Pure speculation, but does this sound like an evolutionary prototype for the flagellum?

An idea how many decades old? Interesting to speculate on something almost accepted for many years all ready.

Recent article from Japan: Direct observation of steps in rotation of the bacterial flagellar motor, Nature 437, 916-919 (6 October 2005)

Has movie in supplementary info page.

[Right Wing Professor]

Interesting to speculate on something almost accepted for many years all ready.

Then how can Behe and Minnich claim that the flagellum is irreducibly complex, when not only does it work in the absence of some components, but there are sequence and mechanistic homologies to a near-ubiquitous protein system that operates by a rotary coupling mechanism?