Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. — Michael Behe Chemical reactions Copy Share Image
The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues. — Michael Behe Biology Copy Share Image
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. — Michael Behe Life Copy Share Image
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe Believe Copy Share Image
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated. — Michael Behe Function Copy Share Image
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Ancestor Copy Share Image
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid… — Michael Behe Aid Copy Share Image
The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids. — Michael Behe Acid Copy Share Image
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Century Copy Share Image
Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want a supernatural… — Michael Behe Important Copy Share Image
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life… Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity… — Michael Behe Beginning of life Copy Share Image
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to… — Michael Behe Arise Copy Share Image
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an… — Michael Behe Began Copy Share Image
Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There… — Michael Behe Astrology Copy Share Image
Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of… — Michael Behe Age Copy Share Image
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but… — Michael Behe Biology Copy Share Image
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather,… — Michael Behe Biology Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Ancestor Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Appearance Copy Share Image
As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions. — Michael Behe Diverse Copy Share Image
It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. — Michael Behe Conclusion Copy Share Image
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver… — Michael Behe 19th century Copy Share Image
If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks -… — Michael Behe Changed Copy Share Image
We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific… — Michael Behe Answers Copy Share Image
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an… — Michael Behe Antelopes Copy Share Image
As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward… — Michael Behe Complexes Copy Share Image
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box. — Michael Behe Accounts Copy Share Image
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed. — Michael Behe Expansion Copy Share Image
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe Arbitrary Copy Share Image
In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. — Michael Behe Components Copy Share Image
Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological… — Michael Behe Creatures Copy Share Image
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution… — Michael Behe Biology Copy Share Image
The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them… — Michael Behe Fit Copy Share Image
Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be… — Michael Behe Complexity Copy Share Image
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the… — Michael Behe Any Copy Share Image
The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina… — Michael Behe Answered Copy Share Image
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened,… — Michael Behe Accepted Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Century Copy Share Image
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines -… — Michael Behe Accounts Copy Share Image
