Book description
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.
"When examined with the powerful tools of modern
biology, but not with its modern prejudices, life on a biochemical
level can be a product, Behe says, only of intelligent design. Coming
from a practicing biologist. . . this proposition is close to
heretical." -- The New York Times Book Review
Michael J. Behe is a Professor of Biological
Science at Lehigh University, where he has worked since 1985. From
1978 to 1982 he did postdoctoral work on DNA structure at the National
Institutes of Health. From 1982 to 1985 he was Assistant Professor of
Chemistry at Queens College in New York City. He has authored more
than forty technical papers, but he is best known as the author of
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution.
He lives near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with his wife and nine
children.
