Michael J. Behe is a Professor of Biological Science at Lehigh University, where he has worked since 1985. From 1978 to 1982 he did postdoctoral work on DNA structure at the National Institutes of Health. From 1982 to 1985 he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Queens College in New York City. He has authored more than forty technical papers, but he is best known as the author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. He lives near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with his wife and nine children.
"In The Edge of Evolution 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
"With this book, Michael Behe shows that he is truly an independent
thinker of the first order. In a day when the media present all
issues in the football metaphor as two teams fighting, the
intelligent design debate is presented simplistically as authors
who are lapdogs for young-earth creationists versus evolutionists
who are lapdogs for atheists. Michael Behe is no lapdog. 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 on 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
"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
"With this book, Michael Behe shows that he is truly an independent
thinker of the first order. In a day when the media present all
issues in the football metaphor as two teams fighting, the
intelligent design debate is presented simplistically as authors
who are lapdogs for young-earth creationists versus evolutionists
who are lapdogs for atheists. Michael Behe is no lapdog. 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 on 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
"In The Edge of Evolution 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
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