What You'll Learn:
Many presume that because science is able to explain how nature works, it is also able to explain its origins. However, as Michael Behe explains, “ . . . understanding how something works is not the same as understanding how it came to be.” What modern science has learned is that biological systems at the molecular level are so complex that all attempts to explain their origins have been futile. Although Darwin’s mechanisms might explain many things, they do not explain molecular life. By diving into the details of modern scientific research, Behe tells the story of how biochemistry is challenging evolutionary theory.
Key Insights:
- The progress of science has involved a series of black boxes.
- A mechanism other than natural selection is needed to account for rapid, large-scale changes.
- Gradual evolution by natural selection is essential to Darwin’s theory.
- Darwin’s gradual evolution fails to explain biological systems that are irreducibly complex.
- Blood clotting is an irreducibly complex system.
- The transportation of proteins involves an irreducibly complex system.
- There is no published work that describes how irreducibly complex biochemical systems might have evolved.
- Biochemical systems demand an intelligent designer who knew what the systems would become before they were made.
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