Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Michael J. Behe

Apr 2001 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely fails to make any kind of case against evolution. Clearly convincing to those reviewers who can barely string together a lucid sentence in English; surely not coincidentally.

I was amazed by the complexity of living organisms and systems at the molecular level. Those who disagree with the author's points offer no alternative explanation or rational counter argument. From what I can see it offers undeniable proof of intelligent design in organic structures. The more we discover with scientific process and tools, the more evidence we gather that there is a Designer.

I read everything Behe writes thanks to this masterpiece. In the world of biochemistry you cannot get any better that this. Very insightful.

About the author

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.