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Aaaah the age old and much simpler question. Was chicken first or the egg?
Coming back to the tail and the motor question.
The problem with question is that it assumes the whole bacteria existed as it is now from day one.
So the motor must have been fully functional operational from day one and the tail must have been fully functional from day 1.
This is not the natural selection the way I understand.
natural selection is that the motor or the tail or both started out as much much simpler "muscles" in the Flagellum Release 1.0.
then there were several branches out of 1.0 that experimented with smaller "muscles" of all kinds. where tail was very different than what is today and the motor was much much simpler than what is today.
Over a long time, these simpler mechanisms of tail and motor evolved in unison to the current form.
Now that are mature, we cannot take first one out and wonder how the heck the second will work without the first.
hope this helps.
The rotary motor is not a muscle. Bacteria doesn't contain muscle tissue! Your fictitious story has to meet certain technical scientific norms!