Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

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Well, in his book Darwin's Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe writes that in order to understand the barriers to evolution, we have to bite the bullet of complexity, he says.

He also adds, "To appreciate complexity, you have to experience it." And in his recent book Foresight, Brazilian chemist Dr.

Marcos Eberlin encourages us to dip a toe in the ocean of ingenuity, ingenuity that in our universal experience is wedded to a power unique to intelligent agents, and that's foresight.

Your articles at Evolution News, Jonathan, are helping readers appreciate the complexity at the heart of life by giving them a chance to experience it a little bit and better understand the argument that an unguided, gradual Darwinian process cannot account for many of the life-friendly features at work in the universe.

And as it happens, uh, the carbon atom possesses a special quantum property n- called a resonance which facilitates that, that process.

So a resonance, uh, describes the discrete energy levels at which protons and neutrons in the nucleus can exist, and it turns out that the resonance of the carbon atom just so happens to correspond to the combined energy of the beryllium atom and a colliding nucleus of helium.

So in their book, uh, A Fortunate Universe, uh, physicists Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes note that, I'm quoting, they say, "If there were a resonance at just the right place in carbon, the combined energy of the beryllium and helium nuclei would result in a carbon nucleus in one of its excited states.

Michael Behe, he is a biochemist at Lehigh University.

He wrote a book called Darwin's Black Box.

And in it, he talked all about this concept at the cellular level with these biological systems at a very simple level.

you find that there are intricate, detailed, almost blueprint-like schematics that represent the information systems that are at that cellular level.