The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of DarwinismSimon and Schuster, 5 июн. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 336 When Michael J. Behe's first book, Darwin's Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers -- and a growing number of scientists -- were intrigued by Behe's claim that Darwinism could not explain the complex machinery of the cell. Now, in his long-awaited follow-up, Behe presents far more than a challenge to Darwinism: He presents the evidence of the genetics revolution -- the first direct evidence of nature's mutational pathways -- to radically redefine the debate about Darwinism. How much of life does Darwin's theory explain? Most scientists believe it accounts for everything from the machinery of the cell to the history of life on earth. Darwin's ideas have been applied to law, culture, and politics. But Darwin's theory has been proven only in one sense: There is little question that all species on earth descended from a common ancestor. Overwhelming anatomical, genetic, and fossil evidence exists for that claim. But the crucial question remains: How did it happen? Darwin's proposed mechanism -- random mutation and natural selection -- has been accepted largely as a matter of faith and deduction or, at best, circumstantial evidence. Only now, thanks to genetics, does science allow us to seek direct evidence. The genomes of many organisms have been sequenced, and the machinery of the cell has been analyzed in great detail. The evolutionary responses of microorganisms to antibiotics and humans to parasitic infections have been traced over tens of thousands of generations. As a result, for the first time in history Darwin's theory can be rigorously evaluated. The results are shocking. Although it can explain marginal changes in evolutionary history, random mutation and natural selection explain very little of the basic machinery of life. The "edge" of evolution, a line that defines the border between random and nonrandom mutation, lies very far from where Darwin pointed. Behe argues convincingly that most of the mutations that have defined the history of life on earth have been nonrandom. Although it will be controversial and stunning, this finding actually fits a general pattern discovered by other branches of science in recent decades: The universe as a whole was fine-tuned for life. From physics to cosmology to chemistry to biology, life on earth stands revealed as depending upon an endless series of unlikely events. The clear conclusion: The universe was designed for life. |
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... thousands of local high points, unable to step farther up, unwilling to back down. And if, just trying to climb higher whenever possible, you had to walk blindfolded and disoriented from the plains by Lubbock, Texas, to the top of the ...
... thousands of local high points, unable to step farther up, unwilling to back down. And if, just trying to climb higher whenever possible, you had to walk blindfolded and disoriented from the plains by Lubbock, Texas, to the top of the ...
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... thousands of fruit flies might be examined. That's better, but still far from enough. With thousands or even millions of organisms, a mutation comes along relatively rarely, and few of the mutations that do come along are helpful. The ...
... thousands of fruit flies might be examined. That's better, but still far from enough. With thousands or even millions of organisms, a mutation comes along relatively rarely, and few of the mutations that do come along are helpful. The ...
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... thousand years the mosquito-borne parasite has wreaked illness and death over vast expanses of the globe. Until a century ago humanity was ignorant of the cause of malarial fever, so no conscious defense was possible. The only way to ...
... thousand years the mosquito-borne parasite has wreaked illness and death over vast expanses of the globe. Until a century ago humanity was ignorant of the cause of malarial fever, so no conscious defense was possible. The only way to ...
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... thousand times faster than the mutation rate of cells. Viruses contain much less genetic material, but it mutates so rapidly, and there are so many copies of it, that HIV alone, in just the past fifty years, has undergone more 13 THE ...
... thousand times faster than the mutation rate of cells. Viruses contain much less genetic material, but it mutates so rapidly, and there are so many copies of it, that HIV alone, in just the past fifty years, has undergone more 13 THE ...
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... thousand years ago. The mutation itself is a single, simple genetic change—nothing at all complicated. Yet despite having a thousandfold more time to deal with the sickle mutation than with modern drugs, malaria has not found a way to ...
... thousand years ago. The mutation itself is a single, simple genetic change—nothing at all complicated. Yet despite having a thousandfold more time to deal with the sickle mutation than with modern drugs, malaria has not found a way to ...
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The Mathematical Limits of Darwinism | 44 |
What Darwinism Can Do | 64 |
What Darwinism Cant Do | 84 |
Benchmarks | 103 |
The TwoBindingSites Rule | 123 |
Objections to the Edge | 148 |
The Cathedral and the Spandrels | 171 |
All the Worlds a Stage | 204 |
Appendix AI Nanobot | 241 |
Appendix BMalaria Drug Resistance | 259 |
Appendix DThe Cardsharp | 269 |
Notes | 277 |
Acknowledgments | 306 |
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