Darwin's
Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
Michael J. Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, presents here a
scientific argument for the existence of God. Examining the evolutionary
theory of the origins of life, he can go part of the way with Darwin--he
accepts the idea that species have been differentiated by the mechanism
of natural selection from a common ancestor. But he thinks that the essential
randomness of this process can explain evolutionary development only at
the macro level, not at the micro level of his expertise. Within the biochemistry
of living cells, he argues, life is "irreducibly complex." This is the
last black box to be opened, the end of the road for science. Faced with
complexity at this level, Behe suggests that it can only be the product
of "intelligent design." Amazon.com Paperback: 307 pages
Touchstone Books; ISBN: 0684834936; (March 1998)
