Many people — including many religious people — have been quick to dismiss the position of intelligent design as little more than “creationism in a cheap tuxedo.” But is this characterization fair? What exactly is Intelligent Design and specifically what aspects of modern evolutionary theory does ID attempt to challenge? Furthermore, what (if any) evidence is there to support these critiques, and what counter arguments have been made against them?
Pat and Dr. Jim sit down for a conversation with Dr. Michael Behe, molecular biologist — often dubbed “the godfather of intelligent design — and author of Darwin’s Black Box , Darwin Devolves, and a Mousetrap for Darwin. Made famous (infamous?) for his proposal of “irreducible complexity,” Pat and Jim press Dr. Behe with objections — some philosophic, others scientific — to see how well his position can withstand scrutiny from experts who have engaged the subject.
Intelligent Design: Is It Scientific? Is It True?
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About Dr. Michael Behe
Michael J. Behe is Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Behe’s current research involves delineation of design and natural selection in protein structures.
In his career he has authored over 40 technical papers and two books, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution and The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, which argue that living system at the molecular level are best explained as being the result of deliberate intelligent design. The books have been reviewed by the New York Times, Nature, Philosophy of Science, Christianity Today, and many other periodicals. Darwin’s Black Box has sold over 250,000 copies and was internationally reviewed in over one hundred publications. Both National Review and World magazine named it as one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century.
Behe has presented and debated his work at major universities throughout North America and England.
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