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The death blow to Darwinism - dealt by the father of the intelligent design movement
The Edge of Evolution
by Michael Behe
After dealing Darwinism a devastating blow with his explosive first book, Darwin's Black Box (which explained why Darwinism was utterly unable to explain the complex machinery of the cell), Michael Behe finishes off evolutionary theory in The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. In this tour de force of evidence and logic, Behe deals nothing less than a death-blow to Darwinism! He draws on the most extensive and detailed genetic studies available in order to subject Darwin's theory to rigorous testing - and in the process, Behe proves that life does develop, but not in the way Darwin thought it did.
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The father of the intelligent design movement points out that for all its intellectual dominance, Darwin's theory, although almost universally accepted, has actually been proven only in one sense: that all species on earth descended from a common ancestor. But Behe argues that Darwin's answer to the all-important question of how this happened -- random mutation and natural selection -- has been accepted largely as a matter of faith, not on the basis of actual proof. Only now, thanks to genetics, has it even become possible to seek direct evidence. The genomes of many organisms have been sequenced, and the machinery of the cell has been analyzed in great detail. The evolutionary responses of microorganisms to antibiotics and humans to parasitic infections have been traced over tens of thousands of generations. As a result, for the first time in history Darwin's theory can be rigorously evaluated - and Behe provides that evaluation here.
The results are nothing short of shocking, even for those who were already skeptical of evolutionary theory. Behe shows that although random mutation and natural selection can explain marginal changes in evolutionary history, they actually explain very little of the basic machinery of life. The "edge" of evolution - that is, the a line that defines the border between random and nonrandom mutation - in reality lies very far from where Darwin thought it did. Behe argues convincingly that most of the mutations that have defined the history of life on earth have been nonrandom.
Behe shows that this stunning finding actually fits a general pattern discovered by other branches of science in recent decades. From physics to cosmology to chemistry to biology, life on earth stands revealed as depending upon a seemingly endless series of extraordinarily unlikely events. The clear conclusion: The universe was designed for life, by a careful, patient Designer. Get the proof from Michael Behe. Critics have dismissed design theory as mere disguised creationism, claiming it's unscientific - but no honest critic will be able to make that claim about this book.
Michael Behe destroys Darwinism:
- Proof: the origin of life was not just an improbable accident, but was deliberately, purposely arranged, just as fundamental laws of nature were arranged
- The multiverse scenario - that the existence of life is just a matter of luck, not design: why it doesn't rescue Darwinism from the dustbin of history
- Two major criteria by which the difference between random mutation and design can be evaluated - and how Darwin got both wrong
- Studies of malaria: how they provide the best evidence about what Darwinian evolution can - and can't - do
- The HIV virus, with its rapid mutations: how it sheds light on the origins of life on earth
- How testing of a truly astronomical number of organisms definitively disproves Darwinism's central prediction - and confirms that of those who defend intelligent design
- The crucial point at which Darwin's theory depends not on evidence or even intelligent deduction, but wishful thinking
- Proof: the major architectural features of life - molecular machinery, cells, genetic circuitry, and probably more - are purposely designed
"Systematically shreds the
central dogma of atheistic science"
"With this book, Michael Behe shows that he is truly an independent thinker of the first order. He carefully examines the data of evolution, along the way making an argument for universal common descent that will make him no friends among young-earth creationists, and draws in new facts, especially the data on malaria, that have not been part of the public debate at all up to now. This book will take the intelligent design debate into new territory and represents a unique contribution to the longstanding question of philosophy: Can observation of the physical world guide our thinking about religious questions?" -- Professor David Snoke, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
"Michael Behe carefully assesses the evidence of what Darwin's mechanism of random mutation and selection can achieve in well documented cases, and shows that even in those cases that maximize its power as a creative force it has only been able to generate very trivial examples of evolutionary change. Could such an apparently impotent and mindless force really have built the sophisticated molecular devices found throughout nature? The answer, he insists, is no. The only common-sense explanation is intelligent design." -- Michael Denton, M.D., Ph.D., author of Nature's Destiny
"In crystal-clear prose Behe systematically shreds the central dogma of atheistic science, the doctrine of the random universe. This book, like the natural phenomena it so elegantly describes, shows the unmistakable signs of a very deep intelligence at work." -- Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D., Research Psychiatrist, UCLA, and author of The Mind & The Brain
"Until the past decade and the genomics revolution, Darwin's theory rested on indirect evidence and reasonable speculation. Now, however, we have begun to scratch the surface of direct evidence, of which this book offers the best possible treatment. Though many critics won't want to admit it, The Edge of Evolution is very balanced, careful, and devastating. A tremendously important book." -- Dr. Philip Skell, Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University, and member of the National Academy of Sciences
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