"Science is not a game in which arbitrary……" — Michael Behe

"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted."

— Michael Behe

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40 Quotes by Michael Behe

Michael Behe has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and…
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how…
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin…
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely…
Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want…
As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met…
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of…
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular…
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 Arbitrary Quotes

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People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of… — John Quincy Adams
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs… — Martha Beck
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. — Annie Besant
I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to… — Anthony Bourdain
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. — William S. Burroughs
Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to… — Felicity Jones
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not… — Lewis Mumford
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as… — Margaret Fuller
So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception. — Ron Paul

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