Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
Written by Michael J. Behe
Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
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The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator.
In his controversial bestseller Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe challenged Darwin’s theory of evolution, arguing that science itself has proven that intelligent design is a better explanation for the origin of life. In Darwin Devolves, Behe advances his argument, presenting new research that offers a startling reconsideration of how Darwin’s mechanism works, weakening the theory’s validity even more.
A system of natural selection acting on random mutation, evolution can help make something look and act differently. But evolution never creates something organically. Behe contends that Darwinism actually works by a process of devolution—damaging cells in DNA in order to create something new at the lowest biological levels. This is important, he makes clear, because it shows the Darwinian process cannot explain the creation of life itself. “A process that so easily tears down sophisticated machinery is not one which will build complex, functional systems,” he writes.
In addition to disputing the methodology of Darwinism and how it conflicts with the concept of creation, Behe reveals that what makes Intelligent Design unique—and right—is that it acknowledges causation. Evolution proposes that organisms living today are descended with modification from organisms that lived in the distant past. But Intelligent Design goes a step further asking, what caused such astounding changes to take place? What is the reason or mechanism for evolution? For Behe, this is what makes Intelligent Design so important.
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Michael J. Behe
MICHAEL BEHE is a biochemist, intelligent design advocate, and author of Darwin’s Black Box and Edge of Evolution. He is a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, and a founding Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've been interested and studied science for the last 20 years as a hobby. Recently I started questioning the theory of evolution as proposed by Darwin and now in its modern synthesis. This book is a great survey of how irreducible complexity questions natural selection as mechanism capable of generating the richness of life that we see.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful. Love the way it drives materi alists nuts. I once complained to friends that Darwinists were intolerant and angry and a Darwinist among them instantly became intolerant and angry. Qed.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thorough, walks you through the maze and lift the weil from your eyes to See!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow, just wow. Fascinating data and information on de-evolving. Won't satisfy belligerence but cannot be casually dismissed. If science is to be honored there must be engagement at the highest level lest one fall into blindly following Darwinism and having faith in unscientific datum.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Awful. Pseudoscience when I was hoping for actual science. Don't waste your time!
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