Michael Behe Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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