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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
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In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
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Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
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It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
Michael Behe
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Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.
Michael Behe
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Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
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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
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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.
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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
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It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
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In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.
Michael Behe
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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.
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Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
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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.
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As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
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