The envelope is not empty. It has a little link in it:
Evolving the Bacterial Flagellum Through Mutation and Cooption
After you've read that I'll be happy to discuss the contents of both articles with you.
Cordially,
How plausible is the scenario that we are debating one on one here considering the billions of people on the earth. EGAD. The fact that in all the millions of years of life on earth and the billions of people that have ever lived, we are two together. The odds of that happening must be like, enormous. Too large to have happened. Must be ID!
One might, of course, raise the objection that I have not provided a detailed, step-by-step explanation of the evolution of the flagellum. Isn't such an explanation required to dispose of the biochemical argument from design?
In a word, no. Not unless the argument has allowed itself to be reduced to a mere observation that an evolutionary explanation of the eubacterial flagellum has yet to be written. I would certainly agree with such a statement. However, the contention made by Behe is quite different from this – it is that evolution cannot explain the flagellum in principle (because its multiple components have no selectable function). By demonstrating the existence of such functions, even in just a handful of components, we have invalidated the argument.