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    <body><![CDATA[I had written a very extensive review of this book, and then I discovered a very cogent criticism of it, which essentially dismantles Behe's whole argument.  Basically, the article proceeds by explaining that the hammartia of Behe's argument is a very complex biological phenomenon that, the biologis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70684938">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intelligent Design is not Creationism, if by Creationism we mean that species did not descend from a common ancestor.  Behe accepts common descent. What he does not accept is that random mutation/natural selection is sufficient to explain the incredible diversity and complexity that we observe in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38385716">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although highly technical, my great interest in the subject made me persevere and I read the whole book.  Although Behe persuasively sets the limits of random mutation at two possible changes at the molecular level, he seems ready to accept the possibility at the vertebrate level, an unexplained and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72426782">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I skimmed this more than read it, so I hesitate to give stars or an in-depth review.  Apart from what Behe has to say about the 'edge of evolution' or whether his definition of 'Darwinism' should be taken as truly representative of Darwinian Evolution, he does write interestingly about malaria and i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3328611">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting view and it is good to balance out the thoughts of writters like Dawkins, but the book way dry and a bit hard to follow.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ An interesting try that's flawed by a logical fallacy called 'begging the question'. The author assumes the thing he's trying to prove and incorporates it into his arguement. Good data, bad science.<br/><br/>Lynn Hoffman, author of bang BANG]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting book.  Takes a new look at evolution and leaves the opening for an intelligent design. A definate thinker-book.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this <em>tour de force</em> of evidence and logic, Michael Behe draws on the most extensive and detailed genetic studies available - - concerning the genomes both of human beings and of our worst diseases, especially malaria  - - to reveal a stunning fact: Darwin's theory of common descent is decisively proven, but his mechanism of random mutation and natural selection is woefully, irrefutably insufficient to account for the evolution of life on earth. With <em>The Edge of Evolution</em>, the theory of intelligent design finally has its masterwork, a comprehensive scientific statement that draws the line between random and non-random mutation in nature; defines the principles by which Darwinism evolution can be distinguished from designl fits design theory together with the findings of cosmology, chemistry, and physics into an overarching theory of the universe; and lays out a research program, with predictions, to counter the failed predictions of Darwin's enthusiasts. <p> <p><em>The Edge of Evolution</em> is certain to be one of the most controversial books of science published in years. Critics have dismissed design theory as mere disguised creationism, and claimed that it is unscientific and/or just another &quot;God of the gaps&quot; argument, yet they cannot say the same about Behe's new work. Studies of DNA have revealed the various types and rates of mutation. That information, combined with population sizes, makes it possible to define the mathematical limits of Darwinism - - and they are radically circumscribed. Extrapolating from studies of malaria, E Coli, HIV, and the human genome, to the entire history of life on earth, proves that random mutation plays only a minor role in evolutionary change. <p></p></p></p>]]>
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