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bahnree's review against another edition
I'm not really qualified to rate this so I'm going to abstain. But the parts that I understood with my extremely weak scientific background were excellent! I really appreciated when he criticized the arguments of people on both sides of a particular point or argument. A good argument has to have logic and sound reasoning.
alosaurus's review against another edition
2.0
I dont agree with it, but I felt it was important to read another's opinion.
knachknachjoke's review against another edition
5.0
Possibly one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read.
Though a bit long-winded at points, Behe does a phenomenal job of presenting biology at its smallest level--the molecular plane--and showing through careful explanation that many systems of life are irreducibly complex; thereby showing that Darwinian natural selection, though it has some merit, could not have been the source of life. The most logical conclusion is that there is a designer; and Behe has taken his readers through the argument from the very beginning, starting with the purely scientific arguments and ending with the purely philosophical.
Though I admit that, as a high school senior with not even AP Biology under her belt, I didn't understand what was being described half the time, the complexity of even something so common as blood-clotting is absolutely mind-blowing. How anyone could argue for the "hopeful monster" is beyond my understanding; clearly life could not have evolved from a single cell without, at the very least, prior DNA encoding and instruction from some intelligent source.
I return this borrowed book to my Apologetics teacher with a vastly deeper appreciation for molecular biology and with an immeasurably firmer conviction that something--someone--had to have been responsible for life on Earth. Apologies to Einstein, Hoyle, and Hawking; your intentions are good and your theories brilliant, but even you all have to admit... fudged numbers and spontaneous hydrogen atoms aren't exactly great refutations of the simpler explanation of design.
Though a bit long-winded at points, Behe does a phenomenal job of presenting biology at its smallest level--the molecular plane--and showing through careful explanation that many systems of life are irreducibly complex; thereby showing that Darwinian natural selection, though it has some merit, could not have been the source of life. The most logical conclusion is that there is a designer; and Behe has taken his readers through the argument from the very beginning, starting with the purely scientific arguments and ending with the purely philosophical.
Though I admit that, as a high school senior with not even AP Biology under her belt, I didn't understand what was being described half the time, the complexity of even something so common as blood-clotting is absolutely mind-blowing. How anyone could argue for the "hopeful monster" is beyond my understanding; clearly life could not have evolved from a single cell without, at the very least, prior DNA encoding and instruction from some intelligent source.
I return this borrowed book to my Apologetics teacher with a vastly deeper appreciation for molecular biology and with an immeasurably firmer conviction that something--someone--had to have been responsible for life on Earth. Apologies to Einstein, Hoyle, and Hawking; your intentions are good and your theories brilliant, but even you all have to admit... fudged numbers and spontaneous hydrogen atoms aren't exactly great refutations of the simpler explanation of design.
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