"In the abstract, it might be tempting to……" — Michael Behe
"In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes."
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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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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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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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