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Michael Behe

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About Michael Behe

Michael Joseph Behe is an American biochemist and an advocate of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design (ID).

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Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
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 n…
It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
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 desig…
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.
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
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 immediat…

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