( Darwin's Black Box p39 in the 2006 edition )

Michael Behe's controversial book Darwin's Black Box popularized the concept of irreducible complexity.

He first used the term " irreducible complexity " in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box, to refer to certain complex biochemical cellular systems.

In the last chapter of Darwin's Black Box, Behe goes on to explain his view that irreducible complexity is evidence for intelligent design.

Behe used the " development of the eye problem " as evidence for intelligent design in Darwin's Black Box.

Darwin's Black Box.

Intelligent Design ( again ), by H. Allen Orr ( review of Darwin's Black Box )

In 1996, the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture ( CSC ), formerly known as the Center for Renewal of Science and Culture, was founded to promote Intelligent design, and entered public discourse with the publication of Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe, arguing for evidence of Irreducible complexity.

In 1993, Behe had written a chapter on blood clotting in Of Pandas and People, presenting essentially the same arguments but without the name " irreducible complexity ", which he later presented in very similar terms in a chapter in Darwin's Black Box.

Darwin's Black Box was not well received by the scientific community, which rejected Behe's premises and arguments.

The politically conservative magazine National Review voted Darwin's Black Box one of their top 100 non-fiction books of the century.

', Denis Lamoureux criticised Darwin's Black Box as having become central to fundamentalist and evangelical anti-evolution critiques against biological evolution.

Though Behe has avoided committing himself to the view that God intervenes directly in nature to create purportedly irreducibly complex structures, Darwin's Black Box briefly speculates that divine intervention might have caused the direct creation of a cell from which all of life evolved, supporting creationist views of miraculous acts of creation, but ironically echoing Darwin's stated " view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

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For the 1993 edition, Michael Behe wrote a chapter on blood clotting, presenting arguments which he later presented in very similar terms as " irreducible complexity " in a chapter in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box.

Michael Behe, in his book Darwin's Black Box, suggested the designer might be a time traveling cell biologist.

In 1997, Dr. Hoberman became a source of controversy with the release of his book Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race, over its highly critical analysis of the relationships between sport and African American culture.

* Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life ( Simon & Schuster ; reprint edition 1996 ) ( ISBN 0-684-82471-X )

Stephen Hawking and Christopher Langan argue that the egg came before the chicken, though the real importance of the question has faded since Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the accompanying Theory of Evolution, under which the egg must have come first, assuming the question intended the egg to mean an egg in general or an egg that hatches into a chicken.

** Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

This view of the animal origins of distinctive human characteristics later received support from Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

* Darwin's Theory of Evolution ( 1923 )

** Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett

In 1923, Fleischer made two 20-minute educational features explaining Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity ( The Einstein Theory of Relativity ) and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

* Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, book by Daniel Dennett

His work with rocks, erosion, and fossils would also lead him to the idea that the earth was much older than generally thought and formed part of the basis of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

For example, on 12 February 2006, the 197th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth was commemorated by " Evolution Sunday " where the message that followers of Christ do not have to choose between biblical stories of creation and evolution was taught in classes and sermons at many Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Congregationalist, United Church of Christ, Baptist and community churches.

* 2006 – 07 Simon Conway Morris Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation and Jonathan Riley-Smith The Crusades and Christianity

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society.

* UCTV: Evolution in Action: Darwin's Finches of the Galápagos Islands-Peter R. Grant & Rosemary Grant

" He also condemned Social Darwinism as erroneous generalisation of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The social theory developed consequently from Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The main British creationist movement in this period was the Evolution Protest Movement, formed in the 1930s out of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, which was founded in 1865, as a response to the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species and Essays and Reviews.

In his first decade in New York Harrison started writing letters to the editor of the New York Times on topics such as lynching, Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution and literary criticism.

He gave the University of Edinburgh Gifford Lectures for 2007 in a series titled " Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation ".

* Dupré J., 2005, Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today.

* Evolution: Charles Darwin's Selected Letters, 1860 – 1870 ISBN 978-0-521-87412-0

A full discussion of the significance of Darwin's early notebooks-together with an annotated presentation of their text-can be found in Paul H. Barrett's Metaphysics, Materialism and the Evolution of Mind-Early Writings of Charles Darwin ( 1980 ).

Darwin's dangerous idea: Evolution and the meanings of life.

The Standard maintained that " true Christians can accept the main scientific facts of Evolution just as they do of Astronomy and Geology ", The Times declared the 1860 debate was " ancient history " and the Daily News said that Darwin's doctrine was consistent " with strong religious faith and hope ".

Emma Townshend is the author of Darwin's Dogs: How Darwin's Pets Helped Form a World-Changing Theory of Evolution ( 2009 ).