![]() While his views are controversial I think that this book was ideal as it questions what I had always considered to be a bedrock of modern science – natural selection. ![]() He argues that it is seemingly impossible for such a system to emerge in a modular fashion since its complexity cannot be reduced thus cannot have come from a simpler system. A common metaphor in this book is a mousetrap – each individual component (hammer, spring, board, etc) is dependent on all the others being present and correct. He argues that this puts strain on the standard “evolution through incremental changes” dogma since if any one of the many molecules were different in any way the function of the whole system collapses. ![]() In doing so he shows the interdependency each molecule plays on the next and thus, he continues, these systems show irreducible complexity. Behe uses modern biochemistry as a platform on which he explores many biological systems at the molecular level. Behe, offers an intriguing challenge to the most commonly accepted theory in biology: evolution through natural selection. ![]() Darwin’s Black Box, written by Michael J. ![]()
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