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The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
Free Press
June 2007
On Sale: June 5, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0743296206
EAN: 9780743296205
Hardcover
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In this tour de force of evidence and logic, Michael Behe
draws on the most extensive and detailed genetic studies
available - - concerning the genomes both of human beings
and of our worst diseases, especially malaria - - to reveal
a stunning fact: Darwin's theory of common descent is
decisively proven, but his mechanism of random mutation and
natural selection is woefully, irrefutably insufficient to
account for the evolution of life on earth. With The Edge of
Evolution, 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;
defines the principles by which Darwinism evolution can be
distinguished from designl fits design theory together with
the findings of cosmology, chemistry, and physics into an
overarching theory of the universe; and lays out a research
program, with predictions, to counter the failed predictions
of Darwin's enthusiasts. The Edge of Evolution is certain to be one of the most
controversial books of science published in years. Critics
have dismissed design theory as mere disguised creationism,
and claimed that it is unscientific and/or just another "God
of the gaps" argument, yet they cannot say the same about
Behe's new work. Studies of DNA have revealed the various
types and rates of mutation. That information, combined with
population sizes, makes it possible to define the
mathematical limits of Darwinism - - and they are radically
circumscribed. Extrapolating from studies of malaria, E
Coli, HIV, and the human genome, to the entire history of
life on earth, proves that random mutation plays only a
minor role in evolutionary change.
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