Michael Behe Quotes

A collection of quotes by Michael Behe.

Michael Behe is a prominent American biochemist and intelligent design advocate. He was born on January 18, 1952, in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Behe is best known for his book "Darwin's Black Box" (1996), where he introduced the concept of irreducible complexity and argued against the adequacy of natural selection to explain the complexity of biological systems. He has been a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University since 1985 and has received numerous awards for his contributions to the field of biochemistry. Behe's work has sparked significant debate and controversy within the scientific community.

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological

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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In private many scientists admit that science has no explana

In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions whi

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they

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.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, fr

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it se

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to d

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