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Wendy Wang reallywyweb652 — Always a difficult topic because of my bro, it sounds riveting!

Sophie Blake sophied76c — Michael Behe is a perfect example of Science gone wrong. He demonstrates that science has come so far in the past several decades that we now have more questions, and fewer answers, than ever before. Rather than inspiring him to seek out the hard-to-find answers, he seems content, indeed determined, to invoke a higher being as the answer to the difficult questions of science. The logic of his arguements is frustrating, to say the least, because it can't be argued. What ever he thinks he knows about biochemistry prevents him from even considering other potencial explanations. He holds stubbornly to science and the scientific method, yet the heart of his arguements are based on analogies to man-made machines, watches and mousetraps, that have almost nothing in common with real live organisms. Not content to compare apple to oranges, he compares apples to gameboys, then argues that no one would doubt the existence of gameboy engineers. How does one respond to this? Add to this a stubborn faith in a Creator God and the arguement completely exits the realm of science. Mr. Behe's book is a painstaking read, not only for it's lackluster prose and bad science, but most especially for it's arrogance and for the blinders that so obviously obstruct his vision of reality. Here's a clue, Michael: Natural systems portray the illusion of design because only those organisms, only those biochemical systems, only those MOLECULES that conform to the laws of the universe are able to survive, to exist. What is, is because it can be. All else parishes in the struggle for survival, the struggle for resources, the struggle for reproduction. We are here because we obey natures laws, because we have been shaped, tweaked, winnowed by those laws. "Irriducible complexity" is another name for "we don't know the details (yet)." And perhaps we'll never know. But what I do know is that Intelligent Design is an unfortunate product of intelligent people mixing up there causes and effects. Mr. Behe has been thoroughly discredited by science. It's just unfortunate that there are enough laymen with enough blind faith to keep his ideas circulating through the collective consciousness. Read this book for an exercise in patience, an exercise in cheek biting, or if you're really in to masochism.

Paula Gil paulagilsoares — I really wanted to like this book more than I did. It was just so artificial and self conscious. The information about the artist Calder was interesting but she kept telling us over and over how much we like his work and how much children like his work. I am awfuly glad there weren't a list of "Discussion Questions" at the end of the book - I might have thrown it across the room. The mystery is also artificial and self conscious and terribly contrived - lots of "ohhh, someone was watching" and nearly Deus ex Machina conclusions. I suppose kids might enjoy the book. The kid characters are not too bad and it is fun when kids have some independence to do stuff. Kids are also pretty used to the superficial artifice of Disney and school textbooks, but I would prefer a book like Girl with a Pearl Earring to tell kids about art.