By: Fredric Rice
Re: Darwin's Black Box

Darwin's Black Box:  The Biochemical Chalenge to Evolution
by Michael J. Behe, Free Press, 1996 ($ 25.00)

The earliest stages in the history of life -- including its
origin and the development of the basic biochemical pathways --
are shrouded in mystery.

Michael J. Behe holds that evolutionary theory will never solve
the mystery, because some of the components are "irreducibly
complex" and so much be the product of "intelligent design" --
maybe God's (sic) maybe not.

It is an old arguement, both arrogant and deeply unsatisfying.
Theologians as well as scientists might blanch at the notion
that we owe our inner workings to an ambiguous designer who
controlled only those aspects of evolution that Behe deems [to be]
inexplicable.

                        - Scientific American, Jamuary 1997

-=- Note from Fredric Rice -=-

Behe is one of those "must believers" who run into something they
don't understand and then handle it by throwing up their hands
and exclaiming, "gods mustas dun it."

Behe also doesn't understand that evolution is a directly observed
phenomena -- he mixes evolutionary theories with the fact of
evolution and ignores 99.9999% of the evidence which supports the
theories his religious beliefs wish do away.