The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael J. Behe - Get a large cup of coffee and start reading...

When Michael J. Behes first book, Darwins 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 Behes 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 natures mutational pathways -- to radically redefine the debate about Darwinism.

How much of life does Darwins theory explain? Most scientists believe it accounts for everything from the machinery of the cell to the history of life on earth. Darwins ideas have been applied to law, culture, and politics.

But Darwins 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? Darwins 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 Darwins 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.

Get a large cup of coffee and start reading...
Outstanding work by Dr. Behe. It can be intense, but that's what bookmarks are good for. Then you can return when you're ready to finish being blown away.

He does an unexpectedly solid job at showing the true "edge of evolution". In some areas, he concedes where Darwin's ideas succeed, followed by other areas where they clearly fail. It's the thorough scientific analysis and sometimes pleasantly anecdotal/metaphorical writing that makes this book so enjoyable.

I'm not always patient enough to read all the technical books that come my way, but I forced myself to finish this one...and was rewarded with a greater appreciation of the cellular world we often ignore.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the genetic strengths of DNA, the pluses and minuses of Darwinian evolution, and indications of Intelligent Design all around us.

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