Latest Michael Behe Quotes from Interviews

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• The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

  Michael Behe

  Together, Fit

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

  Michael Behe

  Evolution, Problem, Complexity

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more.

  Michael Behe

  Changed

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something else? Everybody - even Richard Dawkins - sees design in biology. You see this design when you see co-ordinated parts coming together to perform a function - like in a hand. And so it's the appearance of design that everybody's trying to explain. So that if Darwin's theory doesn't explain it we're left with no other explanation than maybe it really was designed. That's essentially the design argument.

  Michael Behe

  Design, Trying, Together

  Source: www.theguardian.com