All Michael Behe Quotes
The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
Michael Behe
52% of people like this quote
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
51% of people like this quote
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
51% of people like this quote
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.
Michael Behe
50% of people like this quote
But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.
Michael Behe
50% of people like this quote
The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.
Michael Behe
49% of people like this quote
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
48% of people like this quote
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
Michael Behe
48% of people like this quote
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.
Michael Behe
44% of people like this quote
Related authors