"It was a shock to people of the……" — Michael Behe
"It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection."
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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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Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a…
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The Bible in itself is not the Word of God. The Word of God is a person. Neither does the…
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on…
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Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun…
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions…
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Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an…
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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
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The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent…
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Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and…
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