Believe Quote by Michael Behe

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

— Michael Behe

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this…

— Albert Einstein

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.”

— Per Bak

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

“Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.”

— Samir Okasha

There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic…

— Gerald A. Kerkut

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

— Tim Harford

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

— Stuart Kauffman

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

— Christian Lous Lange

“The term we use for the unanticipated result from these interactions is emergence. While not all interactions create emergent effects, when emergence does occur…

— Rich Jolly