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    <body><![CDATA[As an evolutionary biologist I feel obligated to review this book. Behe really does give a valuable critique of evolutionary theory by giving canonical examples of systems that he believes cannot evolve. <br/><br/>Behe's thesis is weak in the sense that he doesn't discredit evolution, he simply th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39689464">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have noticed that all the reviews of this book that are negative or refer to it as well debunked and (every scientist already knows this is crap).  Not one can give a specific simple example of how behe can be challenged.  simply stated they have no such answer.  They can't.  Because Behe is right...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28971575">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[   Michael Behe is a perfect example of Science gone wrong.  He demonstrates that science has come so far in the past several decades that we now have more questions, and fewer answers, than ever before.  Rather than inspiring him to seek out the hard-to-find answers, he seems content, indeed determ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1697419">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't claim to be well-versed in biochemistry, so I cannot really comment on the validity of Behe's claims in favor of intelligent design.  I was simply floored, however, with the descriptions of the biochemical function of the body.  A great example is his use of an analogy with the self-sufficie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3347699">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that was supposed to bring Intelligent Design into the scientific mainstream.  A close look at its reviews show a bunch of really LOW scores from scientific types (who think any mention of ID is automatically grounds for the &quot;bad scientist of the year&quot; award) and really HI...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21867042">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that gave the intelligent design movement its life.  Behe's classic argument is that at the biochemical level of the cell, scientists are discovering that the machinery of life is incomprehensibly more complex than Darwin could have ever imagined.  By looking at the various structur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62213160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an amazing, scientific explanation  of the intricacies of design revealed in the microscopic world that scream, &quot;This is no accident!&quot; Darwin would be the first to repent after reading this. Just the chapter on blood clotting alone is worth getting the book-an excellent springboard...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33484124">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't have the background to properly comment on the science, but it was mostly clearly presented. The solutions to the irreducible complexity issue haven't quite sat right with me, but they're neither as illogical or damning as Behe thinks they are. Behe does do a good job presenting his argument...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51693559">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Behe does an effective job of explaining the argument he's trying to make, some of the examples that support his argument and, most importantly, the limitations of the scope of what the argument attempts to address.  This argument, as anyone who recognizes Behe's name will probably be aware,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41795442">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Shirley Tilghman referred to this work in her 2005 George Romanes lecture at Oxford University. She didn't however grapple with its specific and compelling arguments for the impotence of natural selection in accounting for the astounding 'irreducible' complexity of many biological systems. What is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7349791">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The author was able to make an argument for creationism with concise and thought provoking chemical and biological reasoning. While some sections were above my head with in depth descriptions of various biochemical reactions, the author made a point of keeping this section separate from the more gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41261626">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was actually pretty good. The only reason I don't give it four stars is because he didn't thoroughly defend his controversial acceptance of the notion of God of the Gaps. I can see his point, but it needed further explanation. <br/><br/>It was also ambiguous about what crowd Behe was speaking...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43738650">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not really a &quot;biochemical challenge to evolution&quot; as the subtitle suggests. Behe's major point seems to be that no-one has yet explained the evolution of complex biochemical processes necessary to form life. Not so very long ago people were charging that the mammalian eye was too complex o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21082847">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book raises some very interesting questions about the modern Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theories of evolution.  I think Michael Behe oversteps his authority in several instances in this book by stating that just because we don't currently have an evolutionary roadmap for certain biological str...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5322642">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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