Refuting Behe's Critics, Meyer Gives Four Reasons the Flagellum Predates the Type III Secretory System

Michael Behe's signature argument in Darwin's Black Box would be seriously bruised if it turned out the bacterial flagellar motor had a simpler evolutionary antecedent. Critics of intelligent design thought they had identified such a precursor in the form of the Type III Secretory System, found in some bacteria.

Behe and others have since shown why it's far likelier that the flagellum is the precursor, thus leaving Dr. Behe's argument intact. In response, the critics either simply repeat th...