The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism

When Behe s first book was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Now, Behe presents the evidence of the genetics revolution to redefine the debate of Darwinism. There is little question that all species on earth descended from a common ancestor. But the crucial question is: How did it happen? Now the evolutionary responses of microorganisms to antibiotics and humans to parasitic infections been traced over tens of thousands of generations. Now, Darwin s theory can be evaluated. It can explain marginal changes in evolutionary history, random mutation and natural selection explain very little of the basic machinery of life. Most of the mutations that have defined the history of life on earth have been non-random.