Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution Paperback - 2006

Darwins Black Box helped to launch the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Today, with the movement stronger than ever, Michael J. Behe updates the book with an important new Afterword on the state of the debate.

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Naming Darwins Black Box to the National Reviews 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, Darwins Black Box has established itself as the key text in the Intelligent Design movementthe 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.

Details

• Title Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
• Author Michael J. Behe
• Binding Paperback
• Edition 2nd
• Pages 352
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Free Press, New York
• Date 2006-03-13
• Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
• ISBN 9780743290319 / 0743290313
• Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
• Dimensions 8.46 x 5.52 x 0.84 in (21.49 x 14.02 x 2.13 cm)
• Themes
  • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Theometrics: Secular
• Library of Congress subjects Evolution (Biology), Molecular evolution
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007280713
• Dewey Decimal Code 575

"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