Darwins Black Box, Michael J. Behe
Darwins Black Box, Michael J. Behe
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Darwin's Black Box
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Author: Michael J. Behe

Narrator: Marc William

Unabridged: 12 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/20/2019


Synopsis

Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the twentieth century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the twentieth century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning."

Discussing the book in the New Yorker in May 2005, H. Allen Orr said of Behe, "he is the most prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known." From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established itself as the key text in the Intelligent Design movement—the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it, or not.

For this edition, Behe has written a major new Afterword tracing the state of the debate in the decade since it began. It is his first major new statement on the subject and will be welcomed by the thousands who wish to continue this intense debate.

About Michael J. Behe

Michael J. Behe is a biochemist, intelligent design advocate, and author of Darwin's Black Box and Edge of Evolution. He is a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, and a founding Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen

I have noticed that all the reviews of this book that are negative or refer to it as well debunked and (every scientist already knows this is crap). Not one can give a specific simple example of how behe can be challenged. simply stated they have no such answer. They can't. Because Behe is right. no......more

Here's why I liked this book: When I was a student of human biology and genetics, I noticed that my professors were always talking about the body anthropomorphically. "The cell, knowing it's low on sodium, picks it up from the blood stream." Okay, two problems with this explanation. One, cells don't......more

Goodreads review by Rohan

As an evolutionary biologist I feel obligated to review this book. Behe really does give a valuable critique of evolutionary theory by giving canonical examples of systems that he believes cannot evolve. Behe's thesis is weak in the sense that he doesn't discredit evolution, he simply thinks there a......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Shirley Tilghman referred to this work in her 2005 George Romanes lecture at Oxford University. She didn't however grapple with its specific and compelling arguments for the impotence of natural selection in accounting for the astounding 'irreducible' complexity of many biological systems. What is a......more