Michael Behe Quotes

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• A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under…
• It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
• Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view…
• In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture…
• Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives
• It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be…
• It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world…
• It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
• Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
• Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
• Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an…
• The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
• Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific…
• The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an…
• In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than…
• By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any…
• The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to…
• The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could…
• This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size.…
• But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him…

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