Thursday October 10th 7:00 PM Eastern

A Response to Critics of Darwin's Black Box
by Michael J. Behe

In 1996 I published Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. The main thesis of the book was that science has discovered in the cell biochemical systems that are what I term "irreducibly complex," where the removal of one of the components of the system causes it to lose its function, and that such systems are very difficult to explain in Darwinian terms. I argued that irreducibly complex biochemical systems are better explained as the product of deliberate intelligent design. The book has been quite controversial and has been vehemently criticized by Darwinists. In this paper I discuss several of what I consider to be the most serious of their objections. They include contentions that either the biochemical systems I discussed are not irreducibly complex, or that systems of similar complexity have already been shown to be approachable by Darwinian means. I will demonstrate that these arguments are both incorrect. Further arguments I will consider include one attacking my paradigm of irreducible complexity--a mechanical mousetrap--as well as contentions that the evolutionary literature already has seriously addressed the problems I raised.

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