Quotes by Michael Behe

Michael Behe

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.

Car

Men

Wind

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.

Eye

Light

Simple

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.

Criteria

Increase

Numbers

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.

Broken

Doubt

Stronger

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

Believe

Roots

Support

If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven’t changed much. It’s still a heap of rocks – just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn’t a mousetrap any more.

Changed

In Darwin’s time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

Black

Cells

Eye

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

Order

Process

Steps

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.

Levels

Profound

Scientist

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

Conclusion

Said

Smack

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Arise

Believe

Black

Book

Broken

Car

Cells

Changed

Chemical Reactions

Conclusion

Criteria

Data

Design

Discovery

Doubt

Ducks

Evolution

Expansion

Eye

Firsts

Fit

Flow

Important

Inanimate Objects

Increase

Intelligent

Levels

Light

Looks

Men

Natural

Numbers

Opposites

Order

People

Principles

Process

Profound

Real

Roots

Said

Scary

Scientist

Select

Simple

Simple Life

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Quotes by Michael Behe

Michael Behe

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.

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.

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.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven’t changed much. It’s still a heap of rocks – just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn’t a mousetrap any more.

In Darwin’s time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

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 which smack of the supernatural.

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