Michael Behe Quotes

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

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

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

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

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

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

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

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.

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

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.

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

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

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

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