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Darwin's Black Box : The Biochemical Challenge to Evolutionby Michael J. BeheISBN 0743290313 (0-7432-9031-3)
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Virtually all serious scientists accept the truth of Darwin's theory of evolution. While the fight for its acceptance has been a long and difficult one, after a century of struggle among the cognoscenti the battle is over. Biologists are now confident that their remaining questions, such as how life on Earth began, or how the Cambrian explosion could have produced so many new species in such a short time, will be found to have Darwinian answers. They, like most of the rest of us, accept Darwin's theory to be true.
But should we? What would happen if we found something that radically challenged the now-accepted wisdom? In "Darwin's Black Box, " Michael Behe argues that evidence of evolution's limits has been right under our noses -- but it is so small that we have only recently been able to see it. The field of biochemistry, begun when Watson and Crick discovered the double-helical shape of DNA, has unlocked the secrets of the cell. There, biochemists have unexpectedly discovered a world of Lilliputian complexity. As Behe engagingly demonstrates, using the examples of vision, bloodclotting, cellular transport, and more, the biochemical world comprises an arsenal of chemical machines, made up of finely calibrated, interdependent parts. For Darwinian evolution to be true, there must have been a series of mutations, each of which produced its own working machine, that led to the complexity we can now see. The more complex and interdependent each machine's parts are shown to be, the harder it is to envision Darwin's gradualistic paths, Behe surveys the professional science literature and shows that it is completely silent on the subject, stymied by the elegance of the foundation oflife. Could it be that there is some greater force at work?
Michael Behe is not a creationist. He believes in the scientific method, and he does not look to religious dogma for answers to these questions. But he argues persuasively that biochemical machines must have been "designed" -- either by God, or by some other higher intelligence. For decades science has been frustrated, trying to reconcile the astonishing discoveries of modern biochemistry to a nineteenth-century theory that cannot accommodate them. With the publication of "Darwin's Black Box, " it is time for scientists to allow themselves to consider exciting new possibilities, and for the rest of us to watch closely. [via]More editions of Darwin's Black Box : The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution:
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- Darwin's Black Box : The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution: ISBN 0684834936 (0-684-83493-6)
Darwinism Defeated?: The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on Biological Originsby Phillip E. Johnson, Denis Oswald Lamoureux, Michael J. BeheISBN 0888654286 (0-88865-428-6)
Hardcover, Pacific Educational Press
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The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinismby Michael J. BeheISBN 0743296222 (0-7432-9622-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism'Book summary:Michael J. Behe launched the intelligent design movement with his first book, Darwin's Black Box, by demonstrating that Darwinism could not account for the complexity of biochemistry. Now he takes a giant leap forward. In The Edge of Evolution, Behe uses astounding new findings from the genetics revolution to show that Darwinism is nowhere near as powerful as most people believe. Genetic analysis of malaria, E. coli, and the HIV virus over tens of thousands of generations, not to mention analysis of the entire history of the genetic struggle between them and "us" (humans), make it possible for the first time to determine the precise rates, and likelihood, of random mutations of varying kinds. We now know, as never before, what Darwinism can and cannot accomplish. The answers turn conventional science on its head and are certain to be hotly debated by millions. After The Edge of Evolution, life in the universe will never look the same.[via]More editions of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism:
God, Intelligent Design & Fine-Tuningby Michael J. Behe , T.D. SinghISBN 8189635018 (81-89635-01-8)
Hardcover, Bhaktivedanta Institute
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Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain the Key Issuesby H. Wayne House, Phillip Johnson, Michael J. Behe , Logan Paul Gage, Eddie N. ColanterISBN 0825427819 (0-8254-2781-9)
Softcover, Kregel Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain the Key Issues'Book summary:Intelligent Design 101 brings together leading scholars and researchers from the fields of science and intelligent design studies, such as Michael Behe and Phillip Johnson. Their detailed and insightful essays form an introduction to intelligent design, from the basics of the theory, to its history and growing place in science and education. [via]
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Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theologyby H. Wayne House, Phillip Johnson, Michael J. Behe , Logan Paul Gage, Eddie N. ColanterISBN 083082314X (0-8308-2314-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology'Book summary:"Einstein once remarked that the most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." This statement, quoted by William Dembski, is a way of summarizing intelligent design theory, which argues that it is possible to find evidence for design in the universe. The author of The Design Inference (a scholarly exploration of this topic published by Cambridge University Press) in this book aims to show the lay reader "how detecting design within the universe, and especially against the backdrop of biology and biochemistry, unseats naturalism"--and above all Darwin's expulsion of design in his theory of evolution.
Intelligent Design is organized into three parts: the first part gives an introduction to design and shows how modernity--science in the last two centuries--has undermined our intuition of this truth. The second and central part of the book examines "the philosophical and scientific basis for intelligent design." The final part shows how "science and theology relate coherently and how intelligent design establishes the crucial link between the two." This suggests that Dembski is not simply rejecting Darwin and naturalism on fundamentalist or biblical grounds. While grounded in faith, he wishes to show how "God's design is accessible to scientific inquiry." As such, the book should be of interest to all thinking believers. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Science and Evidence for Design in the Universeby H. Wayne House, Phillip Johnson, Michael J. Behe , Logan Paul Gage, Eddie N. ColanterISBN 0898708095 (0-89870-809-5)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe'Book summary:As progress in science continues to reveal unimagined complexities, three scientists revisit the difficult and compelling question of the origin of our universe. As mathematician, biochemist, and philosopher of science, they explore the possibility of developing a reliable method for detecting an intelligent cause and evidence for design at the origin of life. In the process, they present a strong case for opening and pursuing a fruitful exchange between science and theology.
Mathematician William Dembski, author of The Design Inference, first argues that new developments in the information sciences make intelligent design objectively and scientifically detectablehe identifies the signs of design. Next, philosopher of science, Stephen Meyer, and biochemist Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, argue that these signs are now clearly evident in both the architecture of the universe and the features of living systems. Other essays by the authors defend the scientific status of the theory of intelligent design and show how that theory supports traditional religious belief without necessarily "proving" the existence of God. In a concluding essay, Michael Behe responds to critics of his best selling book, Darwin's Black Box, thus bringing readers up-to-date on the status of the contemporary design argument in biology. [via]
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Darwins Black Boxby Michael J. BeheISBN 3935197543 (3-935197-54-3)
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La Caja Negra de Darwin: El Reto de la Bioquímica a la Evoluciónby Michael J. Behe , Carlos GardiniISBN 8495407027 (84-95407-02-7)
Hardcover, Bello, Andres
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