With Behe\'s book, the theory of intelligent design finally has its masterwork, a comprehensive scientific statement that draws the line between random and non-random mutation in nature, arguing that random mutation plays only a minor role in evolutionary change.
Although it will be controversial and stunning, this finding actually fits a general.
Behe argues convincingly that most of the mutations that have defined the history of life on earth have been nonrandom.
The Edge of evolution, a line that defines the border between random and nonrandom mutation, lies very far from where Darwin pointed.
Although it can explain marginal changes in evolutionary history, random mutation and natural selection explain very little of the basic machinery of life.
The results are shocking.
As a result, for the first time in history Darwin\'s theory can be rigorously evaluated.
The evolutionary responses of microorganisms to antibiotics and humans to parasitic infections have been traced over tens of thousands of generations.
The genomes of many organisms have been sequenced, and the machinery of the cell has been analyzed in great detail.
Only now, thanks to genetics, does science allow us to seek direct evidence.
But the crucial question remains: How did it happen? Darwin\'s proposed mechanism -- random mutation and natural selection -- has been accepted largely as a matter of faith and deduction or, at best, circumstantial evidence.
Overwhelming anatomical, genetic, and fossil evidence exists for that claim.
But Darwin\'s theory has been proven only in one sense: There is little question that all species on earth descended from a common ancestor.
Darwin\'s ideas have been applied to law, culture, and politics.
How much of life does Darwin\'s theory explain? Most scientists believe it accounts for everything from the machinery of the cell to the history of life on earth.
Now, in his long-awaited follow-up, Behe presents far more than a challenge to Darwinism: He presents the evidence of the genetics revolution -- the first direct evidence of nature\'s mutational pathways -- to radically redefine the debate about Darwinism.
Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers -- and a growing number of scientists -- were intrigued by Behe\'s claim that Darwinism could not explain the complex machinery of the cell.
Behe\'s first book, Darwin\'s Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement.
When Michael J.
With Behe\'s book, the theory of intelligent design finally has its masterwork, a comprehensive scientific statement that draws the line between random and non-random mutation in nature, arguing that random mutation plays only a minor role in evolutionary change
