Michael Behe Quotes

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

  Michael Behe

• Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

  Michael Behe

• Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

  Michael Behe

• This fact immediately suggested a singular event – that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event – the creation, the beginning of the universe.

  Michael Behe

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

  Michael Behe

• The question of how the eye works – that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina – simply could not be answered at that time.

  Michael Behe

• 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.

  Michael Behe

• The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

  Michael Behe

• Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

  Michael Behe

• Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

  Michael Behe

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

  Michael Behe

• Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

  Michael Behe

• It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

  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.

  Michael Behe

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

  Michael Behe

• 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.

  Michael Behe

• In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

  Michael Behe

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

  Michael Behe

• In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

  Michael Behe

• 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.

  Michael Behe

Michael Behe (26)

Birth:	18th January, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Biochemist, Lawyer

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