Darwin’s Black Box

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The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

by Dr. Michael J. Behe

Keywords: author-michael-behe biology biochemistry challenges-evolutionary-theory intelligent-design

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Format: Softcover

Dimensions: 5.25 x 8 in.

Pages: 307

Ages: 15 & up

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 1998

This easy-to-read book does a top notch job of explaining one of the most vexing problems in biology: the origin of the complexity that permeates all of life. Behe, a professor in biochemistry who is not a biblical creationist, comes to the conclusion that at a biochemical level, scientists have no option but to believe in intelligent design.

Was Darwin wrong?

Mike Behe … makes an overwhelming case against Darwin on the biochemical level. No one has done this before. It is an argument of great originality, elegance, and intellectual power. For readers who have been persuaded that biologists have long since demonstrated the validity of Darwinian theory, [Behe’s] observations are apt to be a source of astonishment.

—David Berlinski, author of A Tour of the Calculus

[Behe’s] talent for lively exposition … charmingly convey[s] a sense of biochemistry’s hidden beauty.

—James Shreeve, The New York Times Book Review

Michael Behe has done a top-notch job of explaining and illuminating one of the most vexing problems in biology: the origin of the complexity that permeates all of life on theis planet … . This book should be on the essential reading list of all those who are interested in the question of where we came from, as it presents the most thorough and clever presentation of the design argument that I have seen.

—Robert Shapiro, author of
Origins: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth

A well-written and thoughtful statement of the biochemical challenge.

—Will St. John, Detroit Free Press

[A] valuable critique of an all-too-often unchallenged orthodoxy.

—James A. Shapiro, National Review

About the author

Michael J. Behe is Professor of Biochemistry at Lehigh University. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Chapter headings

Preface

Part I: The Box is Opened

Lilliputian Biology
Nuts and Bolts

Part II: Examining the Contents of the Box

Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Rube Goldburg in the Blood
From Here to There
A Dangerous World
Road Kill

Part III: What Does the Box Tell Us?

Publish or Perish
Intelligent Design
Questions About Design
Science, Philosophy, Religion

Appendix: The Chemistry of Life
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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