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Darwin Devolves
- The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator.
In his controversial best-seller Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe challenged Darwin’s theory of evolution, arguing that science itself has proven that intelligent design is a better explanation for the origin of life. In Darwin Devolves, Behe advances his argument, presenting new research that offers a startling reconsideration of how Darwin’s mechanism works, weakening the theory’s validity even more.
A system of natural selection acting on random mutation, evolution can help make something look and act differently. But evolution never creates something organically. Behe contends that Darwinism actually works by a process of devolution - damaging cells in DNA in order to create something new at the lowest biological levels. This is important, he makes clear, because it shows the Darwinian process cannot explain the creation of life itself. “A process that so easily tears down sophisticated machinery is not one which will build complex, functional systems,” he writes.
In addition to disputing the methodology of Darwinism and how it conflicts with the concept of creation, Behe reveals that what makes intelligent design unique - and right - is that it acknowledges causation. Evolution proposes that organisms living today are descended with modification from organisms that lived in the distant past. But intelligent design goes a step further, asking: What caused such astounding changes to take place? What is the reason or mechanism for evolution? For Behe, this is what makes intelligent design so important.
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- Alison Mettam
- 08-11-2021
Final nail in the Darwinian coffin
Behe conclusively shows that the Darwinian mechanism, random mutations and natural selection hinders evolution. Although national selection enables some variety and speciation of organisms the direction is always downhill away from the grand idea of evolution. He shows this by examining the effects of mutation and natural selection at the molecular level, using evolutionists showcase examples, Darwin’s finches, citrate digesting bacteria and others.
Other books will be add to the most important topic evolution versus intelligent design but this book gets right to the core dismantling Darwin’s mechanism. A must read.
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- David Graieg
- 01-07-2020
Interesting insights on Darwinism
A controversial issue. At times I think Behe over states his points, though overall he seems correct. Basically the book argues that Darwinism's processes work in the opposite direction than what the majority of the field has thought, namely organisms are devolving not evolving.
The narrators voice occasionally changes tone at random locations.
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- Richard Cubitt
- 23-03-2019
Great insight for a thought-provoking subject
A really well written book that adds real perspective to the neo-Darwinism vs intelligent design debate. Strangely, the narrators voice changes slightly from sentence to sentence on occasion, which disturbs the fluidity of the narration.
whilst I found this book highly enlightening, and I feel all the smarter for having listened and paid attention, I still side with the neo-Darwinist side of the argument ;)
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