Michael J. Behe was graduated from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. He was awarded the Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 for his dissertation research on sickle-cell disease. From 1978-1982 he conducted postdoctoral work on DNA structure at the National Institutes of Health. From 1982-85 he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Queens College in New York City, where he met his wife. In 1985 he moved to Lehigh University where he is currently Professor of Biochemistry. In his career he has authored over 40 technical papers and one book, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, which argues that living system at the molecular level are best explained as being the result of deliberate intelligent design. Darwin’s Black Box has been reviewed by the New York Times, Nature, Philosophy of Science, Christianity Today, and over one hundred other periodicals. He and his wife reside near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with their nine children.