Darwin's Black Box

The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

By: Michael J. Behe

Narrated by: Marc William

Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning".

Discussing the book in the New Yorker in May 2005, H. Allen Orr said of Behe, "He is the most prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known." From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established itself as the key text in the Intelligent Design movement - the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it, or not.

For this edition, Behe has written a major new Afterword tracing the state of the debate in the decade since it began. It is his first major new statement on the subject and will be welcomed by the thousands who wish to continue this intense debate.

©1996 Michael J. Behe (P)2019 Tantor

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I have no real criticism of the book itself. However, after reading many of the critical reviews of this book, I noticed a pattern emerge. Almost every single critical review of "Darwin's Black Box" either has an extremely biased perspective against creation and/or they fail to differentiate between micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Perhaps this is not by accident.

Behe's goal is not to disprove evolution. The point of the book is to show the fragility of Darwinism. Read more carefully.

well argued

excellent well reasoned arguments based on science. it seems strange how often evolutionist tell story's that are not based on science. they often say it just happened this way...

Well built thesis on ID and problem of Darwinian Evolution at the biochemical level.

This book is quite complex to read/listen to. However, the author gives his explanation for that. Some things are just irreducibly complex - such as biochemistry.

Behe has provided a real challenge for Darwinian proponents that have yet to respond. Biochemistry may be the nail in the proverbial coffin for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

Unfortunately, evolutionary scientists have a philosophical reason for accepting the data. They simply don’t want to see it or believe it. To do so would lead to a different conversation about exactly WHO is the intelligent agent behind life and matter.

There is no logical argument

Behe did extensive and exhaustive work to literally stitch together this boat piece by piece protein by protein nucleotide by nucleotide to portray the extensive complexity of a living organism.

I one example is that evolution would be like a tornado going through a junkyard and creating a 747. however after listening to the book I counter that it would be more like a tornado creating a fully organized and functioning City as big or bigger than New York. That is not just improbable but I would venture to say impossible.

if we were ever to see something like that occur we would call it miraculous. Such is life...

Great layman’s level explanations

I have watched way more than a dozen YouTube videos with Michael be he explaining this book before I listened to it, so I was familiar with what was about to be presented. His ability to describe these things in ways that the layman can understand was impressive!

He used enough technical jargon to make his work feel authentic and accurate, as well as let you know that he does not consider his listeners to be “too dumb to understand.“

At the same time, he used enough descriptions that were at the layman’s level so that us “normies” can understand.

Better than The Origin of Species

Where Darwin made huge leaps from astute observations to pure speculation, this guy comes in and provides real science, not just theory.

INCREDIBLE READ!

This is the BEST description of DNA replication ever done for the general population. i only wish he had been more specific at the end about how there is NO REASON for the many COMPLEX PROCESSES to go awry. Scientists have done an abysmal job...INTENTIONALLY O think...at pursuing the IMPOSSIBILITY of what we see happening at the simplest levels without a CONTROLLER to direct the COMPLEX and INTRICATE process. No one would ever accept a process had happened like this ACCIDENTALLY in any other environment. the insanity of BELIEF in the ACCIDENT of the GAPS FALLACY has become quote laughable now. Excellent attention to detail and FACT!

A timeless explanation against evolution

This book goes over several examples of irreducibly complex systems and explains why it could not be produced step by step in Darwinian fashion. Although it does go over some complex mechanisms of the cellular world, the general conclusion is easy to grasp and understand.

Evolution is ridiculous

Well written and easy to follow along. How did we get here? This is a mystery with only two choices: God or evolution. What strikes me is how absurd the evolution explanation is, yet it is assumed to be true. This book supports the opposite: life is screaming design. We were created by a thinking mind. Narration was high quality.

A little dated but worth the listen!

The book got into the details of some of the incredibly complex system Michael Behe has identified, but was well worth the listen! It's almost 30 years old now but the Appendix updates it some but not to today. The author makes a great case that Darwin did not and could not have known that molecular systems would completely unravel his ideas about Natural Selection. Evolution has been disproven but is still taught in our schools and those of us who know the truth are discounted and dismissed even though so many facts are on our side. Did you know amino acids are soluble in water and therefore could not have formed proteins in a primordial ocean? This book is full of facts like that. Totally worth the listen.