It would be like a flexible oar that is pushed side to side about a fulcrum by a single protein that shrinks & expands after contact with a single ATP molecule. Much simpler, IMO.
(I wish I had a good animation package; I'd illustrate it for you.)
At the very least you'd think the Designer would've made the whip more like a rigid propeller. I mean really, what the heck is that thing??? If it's so darn intelligent a design, then why don't we see boats being pushed along by a rotating whip instead of a rotating propeller? Just where are the real-world benefits of ID as a research program, anyway? :-)
I wait with bated breath to see the jennyp created and working flagellum. But remember you have to get your own dirt.
‘The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath’ ( Mark 2:24)
"Except for God himself, there is nothing in the practice of religion that is more sacred than humanity. Men and women lose their dignity under any regime that sanctifies anything above men and women."
"In Communism, and Fascism the... system---is everything. The individual is subservient to the plan; to the state."
"Years ago a novelist, Barbara Goldberg wrote:"
"You see that bridge; that huge red naked thing of steel? Magnificent eh?
And there-no, there, right at the top. A little dot that sways and crawls along,
fearful lest it lose its dizzy head, and dash into oblivion. Pitiful isn't it?
That pygmy being with its two small hands, and smaller brain,
you see him? Well, he made the bridge!"
"People are greater than things. They are not like bridges; they build them! It is therefore as it should be, that God, when he sought to reveal himself to the world, did so through a human personality-the noblest thing in all creation. Not only were human beings honored by the incarnation, they were dignified by Jesus' own treatment of his fellows. Habitually he reserved his kindest attentions to human life in its frailest forms. Jesus gave the world a spiritual perspective that every religious obedience secondary, to our duty to care(love) for one another."