Keywords
crank science
anti-evolutionism
neo-Darwinism
creationism
intelligent design theory
testability
falsifiability
How to Cite
Abstract
It is a review of Michael J. Behe’s book titled Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (The Free Press, New York 1996), containing the criticism of evolutionary theory. Author tries to discredit intelligent design theory, of which Behe is a proponent, on methodological grounds. According to the author, it is unscientific theory because it cannot be falsified. Moreover, in his opinion, it is an manifestation of „crank science” – it can be treated in the same way as homeopathy or polywater theory.
References
Johnson Phillip, Darwin on Trial, Regnery Gateway, Washington, DC 1991.
Johnson Phillip E., Sąd nad Darwinem, przełożył Robert Piotrowski, Oficyna Wydawnicza „Vocatio”, Warszawa 1997.
Gish Duane T., Evolution: The Fossils Say No!, 3rd ed., Creation-Life Publishers, San Diego 1979.
Coyne J.A., „God in the Details”, Nature 1996, vol. 383, s. 227-228.
Orr H. Allen and Coyne Jerry A., „The Genetics of Adaptation: A Reassessment”, The American Naturalist 1992, vol. 140, s. 725-742.
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