Michael Behe

Behe, Michael Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The End of God? A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Kansas vs. Darwin

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself...Witness
• Play in Full Screen Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus

  2006, role: actor , character name: Intelligent Design Supporter
• Play in Full Screen The Case for a Creator

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Unlocking the Mystery of Life

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Michael Behe:

"Intelligent design requires no tenet of any specific religion. It does not rely on religious texts, messages from religious leaders or any such thing."

"are unequivocal in their support of evolutionary theory."

"it's dangerous to your career to be identified as an ID proponent."

"Evolution: A Theory in Crisis."

"The fact that most biology texts act more as cheerleaders for Darwin's theory rather than trying to develop the critical faculties of their students shows the need, I think, for such statements."

"It's the nature of bureaucracy, I think, to issue statements like this."

"When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers."

"seeing into the future."

"The Big Bang theory was controversial because many scientists thought it had philosophical and even religious overtones they didn't like."

"Intelligent design relies on physical, empirical, observable evidence from nature plus logical inferences."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."

"Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken."

"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."