I've read a lot of Dawkins. I have used a bit of what he has said to demonstrate the desperation of evolutionist apologists, of which he is the foremost right now. For instance, here is a quote from some of my lecture notes:
Richard Dawkins famous quote (The Blind Watchmaker): “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed.”
Something else not quoted: first two paragraphs of his preface to this book
This book is written in the conviction that our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but that it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace solved it, though we shall continue to add footnotes to their solution for awhile yet. I wrote the book because I was surprised that so many people seemed not only unaware of the elegant and beautiful solution to this deepest of problems but, incredibly, in many cases actually unaware that there was a problem in the first place!
The problem is that of complex design. The computer on which I am writing these words has an information storage capacity of about 64 kilobytes…. The computer was consciously designed and deliberately manufactured. The brain with which you are understanding my words is an array of some ten million kiloneurones. Many of these billions of nerve cells have each more than a thousand ‘electric wires’ connecting them to other neurones. Moreover, at the molecular genetic level, every single one of more than a trillion cells in the body contains about a thousand times as much precisely-coded digital information as my entire computer. The complexity of living organisms is matched by the elegant efficiency of their apparent design. If anyone doesn’t agree that this amount of complex design cries out for an explanation, I give up. No, on second thoughts I don’t give up, because one of my aims in the book is to convey something of the sheer wonder of biological complexity to those whose eyes have not been opened to it. But having built up the mystery, my other main aim is to remove it again by explaining the solution.
His answer? Evolution – time, chance, mutations, natural selection – none of these legs hold up alone or together.
Let me ask you, Helix, in return -- have you read Michael Behe's
Darwin's Black Box, or Jonathan Wells'
Icons of Evolution, or even Phil Johnson's
Darwin on Trial? The first two are Ph.D's in the fields they write about. The last, Johnson, is an informed layman and retired law professor who simply took a look at the evidence of evolution...
Tear yourself away from Dawkins' rhetoric for a bit and read what some other intelligent people have to say.
I think you will find the flagellum, as Behe demonstrates, is a good example of something called 'irreducible complexity'. It is also referred to as 'engineered' by evolutionists who deny the Engineer.