Neither you nor Dr. Behe has set out to do any research to show that the bacterial flagellum could not have evolved?
A. I want to qualify that. You know, the thing that’s interesting to me was, back in 1994, my laboratory, my students and I were the first to propose that the bacterial flagellum could be used for other than secretion of flagella proteins. We were the first to actually predict that the type III secretory system, which we didn’t know existed at that time period, would either be the basal body of the flagellum or a structure that looked very much like it. Okay. So I think that I have had some impact in this area directly. And the ironic thing is that, presenting this at scientific meetings and in grant proposals, it was considered a whimsical idea because there was no apriority evidence that the secretion of virulence factors or the flagellum had anything to do with each other. Q. Well, would it be fair to say that, neither you nor Dr. Behe has published any papers in scientific journals on whether — on the evolution or not of either the type III secretory system or the bacterial flagel
