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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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Darwin's finch changed traditional religious thinking about evolution. "It is not the strongest of species that survive, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the most adaptable to change." (good reads). Charles Darwin's discoveries changed a God centered belief to a God passive belief with the evolutionary process.

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In addition, scientists use the homologous structure as evidence for evolution by using structures with different appearances and functions that derived from the same body parts in a common ancestor. Furthermore, natural selection is evidence for evolution because for example, when Darwin collected birds they were a closely related group of distinct species, but the different beak shapes were related to food gathering. Artificial selection is another piece of evidence for evolution in which operates by favoring individuals with certain phenotypic traits allowing them to reproduce and pass their genes to the next generation. Overall many biologists accepted Darwin’s theories but there are some objections such as how evolution is not demonstrated, no fossil intermediates, the intelligent design argument, evolution violating the second law of thermodynamics, proteins are too improbable, the irreducible complexity argument, and how natural selection does not imply

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