"For example, both humans and chimps have a……" — Michael Behe
"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 imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives."
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40 Quotes by Michael Behe
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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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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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As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met…
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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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