Darwin Has a Molecule Problem, with Dr. Michael Behe (Self-Brain Surgery Saturday)

Apr 13, 2024

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It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!

We're all taught in school that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution explains how we got here. But the truth is, modern molecular biology continues to struggle to prove even the most basic elements of that idea. Survival of the fittest is an obvious truth, but survival does not explain arrival, and since Watson and Crick gave us the molecular structure of DNA in the 1950's, the picture has become more and more bleak for the Darwinists.

My guest today is Dr. Michael Behe. He is a biochemist from Lehigh University, and his incredible book is Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution.

From Amazon.com:

Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning".

Discussing the book in the New Yorker in May 2005, H. Allen Orr said of Behe, "He is the most prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known." From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established itself as the key text in the Intelligent Design movement - the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it, or not.

For this edition, Behe has written a major new Afterword tracing the state of the debate in the decade since it began. It is his first major new statement on the subject and will be welcomed by the thousands who wish to continue this intense debate.

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(00:01) - Introduction to Dr. Michael Behe
(07:19) - Personal Reflections and Introduction to Dr. Behe
(15:20) - Evolutionary Skepticism and Introduction to Darwin's Black Box
(18:03) - The Complexity of Cellular Machinery
(20:36) - Clarifying Different Aspects of Evolution
(25:46) - The Search for Truth in Science
(29:07) - The Impact of Scientific Discoveries on Worldviews
(37:03) - Recognizing Intelligent Design
(43:37) - The State of Evolutionary Research
(48:51) - Preparing Children for Scientific Bias
(53:40) - Science vs. Religious Approach
(55:16) - The Philosophical Foundation of Evolution
(57:06) - Arming Children with Scientific Knowledge

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