"As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological……" — Michael Behe
"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 science allows."
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40 Quotes by Michael Behe
Michael Behe has 40 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and…
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There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how…
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For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin…
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Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
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We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
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In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely…
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Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want…
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The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of…
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I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular…
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I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to…
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Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.
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