Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
by Michael J. Behe

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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Author: Michael J. Behe
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-03-07
ISBN: 0743290313
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Free Press
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Book Review: Great book by a thinking man. Intelligent Design is better than Evolution!
Summary: 4 Stars

"Will Evolve For Food"...I keep hoping to
see an ape or man in an ape suit holding
a sign on a street corner with one! We see
so many people with 'Will Work for Food'
signs that it'd be nice to see someone
going after Big Brother for the Evolution
Hoax! Intellignet Design is a breath of
fresh air in the Creation / Evolution
Debate. Behe makes the best case to date
for Intelligent Design. Pick Up On It!

Summary of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong?

In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate on evolution, which continues to intensify across the country. From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established itself as the key intelligent design text -- the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it.

In a major new Afterword for this edition, Behe explains that the complexity discovered by microbiologists has dramatically increased since the book was first published. That complexity is a continuing challenge to Darwinism, and evolutionists have had no success at explaining it. Darwin's Black Box is more important today than ever.


Michael J. Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, presents here a scientific argument for the existence of God. Examining the evolutionary theory of the origins of life, he can go part of the way with Darwin--he accepts the idea that species have been differentiated by the mechanism of natural selection from a common ancestor. But he thinks that the essential randomness of this process can explain evolutionary development only at the macro level, not at the micro level of his expertise. Within the biochemistry of living cells, he argues, life is "irreducibly complex." This is the last black box to be opened, the end of the road for science. Faced with complexity at this level, Behe suggests that it can only be the product of "intelligent design."

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