Please List Attempts to Explain Flagellum

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

Continuing the discussion from Tickets for Swamidass & Behe event are all gone. Every seat filled:

@Timothy_Horton

The exact words on Behe’s slide which he read were

“The Bacterial Flagellum: More than 20 years after Darwin’s Black Box there has not been even an attempt to explain it in Darwinian terms. It remains at utter mystery”

That is a flat out lie, no two ways about it. Beside the well known Nic Matzke paper in Nature From The Origin of Species to the origin of bacterial flagella there have been around 600 published papers on the evolution of all parts of the flagellum.

Please list out all the attempts you can. It does not matter if the attempt is judged successful. I’d just like to see an attempt at listing the best attempts.

Though notice the word “Darwinian,” with this qualifier he may be correct. Does anyone explain things by exclusively “Darwinian” terms?