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A review by lindzieh
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
2.0
I am giving this 2 stars because I had a hard time reading this book. I don't mean I had a hard time understanding the book as my degree is in Microbiology. I feel like he simplified everything too much. It was more confusing to me for molecules/pathways/etc to not have proper names. He was trying to write to an audience who didn't have any background in science.
As far as his argument, I felt like it was very redundant throughout the book. Yes, we understand that from a biochemical stand point, evolution probably didn't work. I just got tired of reading this over and over and over.
He did make very good points from a biochemist's point of view of why evolution really couldn't work because of our immune system, our blood clotting system and how bacterial flagella work. This is about the only part I found interesting. I got kind of lost in the last part of the book when he was talking about intelligent design. I felt like he took a lot of liberty to jump all over the place with that topic. I had a hard time staying focused at the end. I read "The Language of God" that was making references to this book so I figured I better read it.
Overall, interesting read and interesting ideas.
As far as his argument, I felt like it was very redundant throughout the book. Yes, we understand that from a biochemical stand point, evolution probably didn't work. I just got tired of reading this over and over and over.
He did make very good points from a biochemist's point of view of why evolution really couldn't work because of our immune system, our blood clotting system and how bacterial flagella work. This is about the only part I found interesting. I got kind of lost in the last part of the book when he was talking about intelligent design. I felt like he took a lot of liberty to jump all over the place with that topic. I had a hard time staying focused at the end. I read "The Language of God" that was making references to this book so I figured I better read it.
Overall, interesting read and interesting ideas.