DARWIN’S BLACK BOX

DARWIN’S BLACK BOX – THE BIOCHEMICAL CHALLENGE TO EVOLUTION

In Darwin’s Black Box, Michael Behe argues that evidence of evolution’s limits has been right under our noses, but its undoing is evident at such a small scale 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 defend 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 of life. Could it be that there is some greater force at work?

DARWIN’S BLACK BOX – CONTENTS

PREFACE IX
THE BOX IS OPENED
1. LILIPUTIAN BIOLOGY 3
2. NUTS AND BOLTS 26
EXAMINING THE CONTENTS OF THE BOX
3. ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT 51
4. RUBE GOLDBERG IN THE BLOOD 74
5. FROM HERE TO THERE 98
6. A DANGEROUS WORLD 117
7. ROAD KILL 140
WHAT DOES THE BOX TELL US?
8. PUBLISH OR PERISH 165
9. INTELLIGENT DESIGN 187
10. QUESTIONS ABOUT DESIGN 209
11. SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION 232
AFTERWORD 255
APPENDIX 273
NOTES 295
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 313

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