Behe's current research involves delineation of design and natural selection in protein structures. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Behe is Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Behe Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture Michael J. It’s now been 20 years, so where does the score stand? Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast. Finally, Behe reflects on his critics’ confident predictions that they’d have the evidence to refute his groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box within 20 years.

Behe and host Andrew McDiarmid discuss what it might mean for origins science to again recognize, and allow room in its explanatory toolkit for, the unique causal powers of mind. That’s because it can’t do what mind can do. Evolution can create niche advantages by breaking certain things, but it doesn’t build fundamentally new structures or new machines. According to Behe, the answer is, not much. Today we can explore that black box like never before, much better even than even two decades ago, allowing us to observe what evolution can actually do at the molecular level.

The cell was a black box to Darwin and his contemporaries. He compares evolutionary biology in Darwin’s time and today to the world of astronomy before and after the telescope was invented. On this episode of ID the Future, Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe discusses the closing sections of his new book Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution.

Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. Behe