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Edge of Evolution The Search for the Limits of Darwinism

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ISBN-10: 0743296222

ISBN-13: 9780743296229

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael J. Behe

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When Michael J. Behe's first book, "Darwin's Black Box," was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. 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. 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. How much of life does Darwin's theory explain? Most scientists believe it accounts for everything from the machinery of the…    
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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 6/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

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.

The Elements of Darwinism
Arms Race or Trench Warfare?
The Mathematical Limits of Darwinism
What Darwinism Can Do
What Darwinism Can't Do
Benchmarks
The Two-Binding-Sites Rule
Objections to the Edge
The Cathedral and the Spandrels
All the World's a Stage
I, Nanobot
Malaria Drug Resistance
Assembling the Bacterial Flagellum
The Cardsharp
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index