Michael Behe Quotes

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• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure…
• The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.
• There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real,…
• For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to…
• Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
• We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
• In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even…
• 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 being to affect…
• As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that…
• The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the…
• I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
• I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
• Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.
• The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.
• We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no…
• In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
• In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.
• As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
• As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very…
• Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did…

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