Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe 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
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues. — Michael Behe Biology Copy Share Image
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. — Michael Behe Conclusion Copy Share Image
As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions. — Michael Behe 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
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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
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
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
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler… — Michael Behe 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 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 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
The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,… — Michael Behe Achievement 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 Copy Share Image
In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated. — Michael Behe 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
But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex… — Michael Behe 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 Copy Share Image
The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on… — Michael Behe Conclusion 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 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 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
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid… — Michael Behe 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 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 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 Copy Share Image