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Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, by Michael J. Behe (Free Press, 292 pp., $20)

VANNEVAR Bush had it right. Science is an “endless frontier.” The sun replaces the earth at the center of the solar system. Microbiology supplants spontaneous generation. The concept of evolution makes it possible to invoke natural processes as the source of biological diversity. The indivisible atom yields to quantum physics, and relativity stretches Newtonian ideas of space and time out of all recognition.

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Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, by Michael J. Behe (Free Press, 292 pp., $20)

VANNEVAR Bush had it right. Science is an “endless frontier.” The sun replaces the earth at the center of the solar system. Microbiology supplants spontaneous generation. The concept of evolution makes it possible to invoke natural processes as the source of biological diversity. The indivisible atom yields to quantum physics, and relativity stretches Newtonian ideas of space and time out of all recognition.