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Excerpt From Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge To Evolution

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Michael Behe is a famous renowned scientist and is known for his views on intelligent design. Behe graduated from Lehigh University and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. Behe’s thesis for his Ph.D. was titled Biophysical Aspects of Sickle Hemoglobin Gelation. Dr. Behe has written many books, the most popular are Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, and The Edge of Evolution. Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution was placed in the top 100 non-fiction books of the twentieth century. Behe himself is most proud of that award. This excerpt from Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution explains a good breakdown of irreducible complexity - "The function of a mousetrap is to …show more content…

Some small-but-important changes can certainly occur by random processes (such as the sickle-cell mutation), and that shouldn't be ignored. However, basic biological features -- the kind that define biological families (such as cats versus dogs) -- I think the evidence shows that they required purposeful design.” Michael Behe said in an interview I had with him. Through this Behe also thinks you have to know how to define evolution - “To avoid confusion one has to define "evolution". I think "generic" evolution is correct in the sense that modern organisms descended from past organisms. However, I think "Darwinian" evolution is false. Darwin proposed that evolution could work without intelligent direction. I think that's wrong. Especially since science has discovered the sophisticated molecular machinery at the foundation of life, I think we can be certain that life was purposely designed.” Behe said in our

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