Darwin’s Black BoxMichael Behe

1996

Launched the Intelligent Design Movement Nature exhibits evidence of design beyond

Darwinian randomness (link to Dawkin’s ‘Blind Watchmaker’ 1985)

Is Darwinian evolution sufficient in its explanation of life today?

Problem: Behe assumes that because we cannot explain all micro systems now.. That it never will!

The Elephant analogy

The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Man crushed flat as a pancake on the floor in his apartment

Big grey elephant stood in the room Police searching for clues, staring at the

floor... Crawling around looking endlessly This is what we are trained to do... We miss

the elephant out entirely... Although it is there in the room for all to see

The Elephant Analogy