Michael J. Behe: Quotes about life

Michael J. Behe is American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines—the basis of life—developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life’s foundation has paralyzed science’s attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism’s universal reach.”

Michael J. Behe

Source: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), p. (1996).

Life , Search , Literature , Question

“The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecular level—is a loud, clear, piercing cry of ‘design!’ The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.”

Michael J. Behe

Source: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), p. 232-233.

Life , History , Intelligence , Effort

“In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.. . . Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.”

Michael J. Behe

Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996)

Life , Imagination , Science

“... I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no reason to doubt it. ... I think that evolutionary biologists have contributed enormously to our understanding of the world. Although Darwin's mechanism - natural selection working on variation - might explain many things, however, I do not believe it explains molecular life.”

Michael J. Behe

Source: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), page 5

Idea , Understanding , Nature , Thinking