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New Edition: Darwin's Black Box
Posted on 04/10/2006 8:01:00 AM PDT by truthfinder9
The new 10th Anniversary edition of the book that still has Darwin Fundies running scared. With a new afterword.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743290313/
"A persuasive book. It will speak to the layman and perhaps even to professional evolutionists as well, if they are able to suspend for a little while their own judgment about origins, the ultimate black box."
-- The Washington Times
"An argument of great originality, elegance, and intellectual power. . . . No one can propose to defend Darwin without meeting the challenges set out in this superbly written and compelling book."
-- David Berlinski, author of A Tour of the Calculus
"Overthrows Darwin at the end of the twentieth century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning."
-- George Gilder in National Review
"[Behe] is the most prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known."
-- H. Allen Orr in The New Yorker
"When examined with the powerful tools of modern biology, but not with its modern prejudices, life on a biochemical level can be a product, Behe says, only of intelligent design. Coming from a practicing biologist. . . this proposition is close to heretical."
-- The New York Times Book Review
TOPICS: Apologetics; Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Science; Skeptics/Seekers
KEYWORDS: apologetics; behe; biology; complexity; creation; crevolist; darwin; design; evolution; fundamentalism; genesis; id; origins; pseudoscience; science
To: truthfinder9
Did he add any examples of irreducible complexity that really are irreducibly complex?
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posted on
04/10/2006 8:09:01 AM PDT
by
ahayes
To: ahayes
Wrong question. Have the Darwinists ever adequately answered how his original example could have been the result of natural selection?
To: truthfinder9
To: Kenny Bunkport
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:29:41 PM PDT
by
ahayes
To: ahayes
Did he add any examples of irreducible complexity that really are irreducibly complex? No.
He did not correct any of the original errors.
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posted on
04/10/2006 6:24:25 PM PDT
by
balrog666
(There is no freedom like knowledge, no slavery like ignorance. - Ali ibn Ali-Talib)
To: balrog666; Kenny Bunkport; ahayes
Actually Behe has answered in detail the empty claims of the Darwin Fundies (of course the Darwin Fundie Newsletter probably forgot to mention these):
Responses to Critics
- The Lamest Attempt Yet to Answer the Challenge Irreducible Complexity Poses for Darwinian Evolution
Michael Behe’s response to a recent article in Science that claims to debunk irreducible complexity. File Date: 4.06.06. - Comments on Ken Miller's Reply to My Essays
January 8, 2001 commentary to Kenneth Miller, Brown University Professor of Biology and author of Finding Darwin's God, who posted a response to Behe's essays at: http://biocrs.biomed.brown.edu/Darwin/DI/Design.html. File Date: 2.26.01. - Self-Organization and Irreducibly Complex Systems: A Reply to Shanks and Joplin
August 31, 2000. - Correspondence with Science Journals: Response to Critics Concerning Peer Review
August 2, 2000. - Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design: Response to Critics
July 31, 2000. - "A True Acid Test": Response to Ken Miller
July 31, 2000. - In Defense of the Irreducibility of the Blood Clotting Cascade: Response to Russell Doolittle, Ken Miller, and Keith Robison
July 31, 2000. - Irreducible Complexity and the Evolutionary Literature: Response to Critics
July 31, 2000. - A Mousetrap Defended: Response to Critics
July 31, 2000. - Intelligent Design is Not Creationism: Response to "Not (Just) in Kansas Anymore" by Eugenie C. Scott, Science (May 2000)
July 7, 2000. - Behe Responds to Boston Review
The December 1996/ January 1997 issue of the Boston Review carried a discussion by H. Allen Orr of Michael Behe's book, Darwin's Black Box. These are the responses to that article. The response to the author was published by the BR's February/ March 1997 issue. The second response was sent to the reader discussion website of the Boston Review but was not published . We have also included links to Mr. Orr's original article and his subsequent response to Behe.
To: ahayes
To: balrog666
From your comment, it would be accurate to assume you've read both the original edition, and this new addition as well?
To: Kenny Bunkport
Another edition?
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posted on
04/11/2006 11:57:08 AM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Kenny Bunkport
One problem with ID is it posits a designer who is a raging sadistic psychopath. A malevolent designer. Fortunately, ID has no implications at all for religion.
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posted on
04/11/2006 12:00:08 PM PDT
by
js1138
(~()):~)>)
To: js1138
If one wishes to discuss a creation gone bad, the problem of evil, etc. and so on, then we're really in the realm of theology. (
Hint)
To: truthfinder9
Well, I guess he figures he can still squeeze a buck out of it before it fades into history along with all the other quack theories that have gone before it.
To: truthfinder9
I know this is aggravating, but all but one of your links are broken.
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:16:13 PM PDT
by
ahayes
To: Kenny Bunkport
ID doesn't address theological questions. In fact it denies absolutely that any reference to theology is implied.
I simply observe that the design results in incalcuable cruelty. Whether one imputes evil to the design of relentless cruelty is outside the realm of the observable.
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posted on
04/11/2006 3:19:06 PM PDT
by
js1138
(~()):~)>)
To: balrog666; Kenny Bunkport; ahayes
sorry, try this:
Responses to Critics
- The Lamest Attempt Yet to Answer the Challenge Irreducible Complexity Poses for Darwinian Evolution
Michael Behe’s response to a recent article in Science that claims to debunk irreducible complexity. File Date: 4.06.06. - Comments on Ken Miller's Reply to My Essays
January 8, 2001 commentary to Kenneth Miller, Brown University Professor of Biology and author of Finding Darwin's God, who posted a response to Behe's essays at: http://biocrs.biomed.brown.edu/Darwin/DI/Design.html. File Date: 2.26.01. - Self-Organization and Irreducibly Complex Systems: A Reply to Shanks and Joplin
August 31, 2000. - Correspondence with Science Journals: Response to Critics Concerning Peer Review
August 2, 2000. - Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design: Response to Critics
July 31, 2000. - "A True Acid Test": Response to Ken Miller
July 31, 2000. - In Defense of the Irreducibility of the Blood Clotting Cascade: Response to Russell Doolittle, Ken Miller, and Keith Robison
July 31, 2000. - Irreducible Complexity and the Evolutionary Literature: Response to Critics
July 31, 2000. - A Mousetrap Defended: Response to Critics
July 31, 2000. - Intelligent Design is Not Creationism: Response to "Not (Just) in Kansas Anymore" by Eugenie C. Scott, Science (May 2000)
July 7, 2000. - Behe Responds to Boston Review
The December 1996/ January 1997 issue of the Boston Review carried a discussion by H. Allen Orr of Michael Behe's book, Darwin's Black Box. These are the responses to that article. The response to the author was published by the BR's February/ March 1997 issue. The second response was sent to the reader discussion website of the Boston Review but was not published . We have also included links to Mr. Orr's original article and his subsequent response to Behe.
To: Junior
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