Miracles and Molecules
Journal Title: Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy - Year 2004, Vol 1, Issue 0
Abstract
It is a review of Michael J. Behe’s book titled [i]Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution[/i] (The Free Press, New York 1996), containing the criticism of evolutionary theory. Author criticizes Behe’s thesis that irreducible complexity of biochemical systems suggest they were designed by an intelligent designer, i.e. that they were not produced gradually by the working of natural selection. According to the author, irreducible complexity can be a result of the action of evolutionary process called gene duplication. He also thinks that the reference to the supernatural factors to explain phenomena occurring in nature has the same value as explanations invoking miracles, and this, according to him, cannot be described as a scientific practice. Scientists should hold on to the principle of methodological naturalism.
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Douglas Futuyma
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