Written in response to the article "What in the...?" by Justin Greif, which appeared in The Flip Side Volume 1, Issue 6 (February 18th - March 2nd, 2004).

This article made a reference to how science and religion may converge some time in the near future. "Science itself is not attacking religion; they are both going in their own directions. There is no need to fear this. In fact, many believe that they will converge again sometime in the distant future."

I write to you today to tell you that the time has come when science and religion are both converging as we speak. I will focus on one of the newest discoveries to date; the Bacterial Flagellum. Known by scientists for the last two to three decades, the bacterial flagellum motor is a tail that helps to move the bacterial flagellum through liquid to perform various tasks. What makes the bacterial flagellum motor unique is that it has 40 unique parts, each vital to the function of this machine. Basically, if one part of this molecular machine is missing, the flagellum will not work, an idea known as irreducible complexity.

The existence of the bacterial flagellum motor is causing serious doubts in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. In his theory, a change can occur in something slowly and gradually and only if it gives the specific object an advantage. Knowing that if missing even one part the bacterial flagellum motor it will not work, how could the bacterial flagellum survive millions or even billions of years dormant while it waited for parts to be added to it slowly and gradually? According to the laws of natural selection, the bacterial flagellum could not have survived.

Michael J. Behe, in a book called "Darwin's Black Box," puts forth an incredible argument for something that he calls "Intelligent Design" to explain the existence of the bacterial flagellum motor. Anyone interested in the subject of evolution would do themselves a world of good to hear the arguments put out against Darwinian Evolution and look at the subject from more than one perspective.