[asa] Does the flagellum prove Genesis?

How exactly does the bacterial flagellum actually substantiate the Genesis
account (for those who think it does)?
 
ID can only point to the flagellum and some other specific instances as
being potential scientific evidence of design. But did God supernaturally
add the flagellum to bacteria (or related organism) which had existed for
hundreds or thousands of years? If so, how does this support young earth
Biblical claims? What does it say about God, if all we can objectively
(subjectively?) say he supernaturally created only certain parts of certain
organisms? A strict reading of Genesis doesn't imply that God created parts
of organisms at certain specific instances and let the other parts of
organisms develop naturally over time. Isn't this what Behe's
science/theology leads to, is a God who is only a part-time, partial
creator, who uses biological processes but creatively intervenes when those
processes aren't sufficient for His purposes?
 
Or alternatively, if the YEC response is, "We can see from bits of evidence
within organisms that God *obviously* created those parts that we interpret
as irreducibly complex, so that just proves that the whole organism was
supernaturally created." But then they are jumping from whatever bits of
scientific evidence are provided by ID theory, and ending with a purely
theological conclusion, not a scientific one.
 
 
Jon Tandy
 <http://www.arcom.com/>

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John,

The carpet fiber is objective evidence. If the matching of carpet fibers
can be shown objectively to constitute a direct connection to the accused,
then this evidence can serve in the way finger prints and DNA serve as
evidence.

This is not the same for ID which is a subjective based view, IMO. To
believe that God is manipulating certain motorized bacterial formations is a

subjective, not objective.

GeorgeA

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