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Darwin's Black Box

The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

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Darwin's Black Box

By: Michael J. Behe
Narrated by: Marc William
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Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th 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.

©1996 Michael J. Behe (P)2019 Tantor Biological Sciences Biology Evolution Evolution & Genetics History History & Philosophy Science Thought-Provoking Suspenseful Natural History Paleontology Intelligent Design Theory
Extensive Complexity Explanation • Compelling Scientific Arguments • Thorough Molecular Evidence • Thought-provoking Concepts

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I have no real criticism of the book itself. However, after reading many of the critical reviews of this book, I noticed a pattern emerge. Almost every single critical review of "Darwin's Black Box" either has an extremely biased perspective against creation and/or they fail to differentiate between micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Perhaps this is not by accident.

Behe's goal is not to disprove evolution. The point of the book is to show the fragility of Darwinism. Read more carefully.

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excellent well reasoned arguments based on science. it seems strange how often evolutionist tell story's that are not based on science. they often say it just happened this way...

well argued

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Where Darwin made huge leaps from astute observations to pure speculation, this guy comes in and provides real science, not just theory.

Better than The Origin of Species

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This is the BEST description of DNA replication ever done for the general population. i only wish he had been more specific at the end about how there is NO REASON for the many COMPLEX PROCESSES to go awry. Scientists have done an abysmal job...INTENTIONALLY O think...at pursuing the IMPOSSIBILITY of what we see happening at the simplest levels without a CONTROLLER to direct the COMPLEX and INTRICATE process. No one would ever accept a process had happened like this ACCIDENTALLY in any other environment. the insanity of BELIEF in the ACCIDENT of the GAPS FALLACY has become quote laughable now. Excellent attention to detail and FACT!

INCREDIBLE READ!

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This book goes over several examples of irreducibly complex systems and explains why it could not be produced step by step in Darwinian fashion. Although it does go over some complex mechanisms of the cellular world, the general conclusion is easy to grasp and understand.

A timeless explanation against evolution

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