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Michael J. Behe è un biochimico statunitense, sostenitore del movimento antievoluzionista Disegno intelligente .

Professore di biochimica alla Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, cattolico e membro anziano del Center for Science and Culture del Discovery Institute , sostiene l'idea che alcune strutture biologiche siano troppo complesse a livello biochimico per essere spiegate adeguatamente come risultato di meccanismi di evoluzione: ha definito questo concetto come "complessità irriducibile" .

Le sue affermazioni sulla complessità irriducibile di strutture cellulari fondamentali sono contestate dalla comunità scientifica; il Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche della Lehigh University ha reso pubblica la propria posizione ufficiale sull'argomento, affermando che «È nostra posizione collettiva che il Disegno intelligente non abbia basi nella scienza, che non sia stato verificato sperimentalmente e che non debba essere ritenuto scientifico»; le sue affermazioni sul Disegno intelligente sono state definite pseudoscienza.La testimonianza di Behe nel processo Kitzmiller contro la Dover Area School District è stata ampiamente citata dal giudice nella sentenza con la quale afferma che il Disegno intelligente non è scienza ma di natura fondamentalmente religiosa. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Gennaio 1952
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“Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority.. . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that. . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.”

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Michael J. Behe

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don’t want there to be anything beyond nature. They don’t want a supernatural being to affect nature.”

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

“Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There are many things throughout the history of science which we now think to be incorrect which nonetheless would fit that — which would fit that definition. Yes, astrology is in fact one.”

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testimony in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, trial transcript: day 11 http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day11pm.html#day11pm132 (18 October 2005).

“As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin’s criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.”

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Origine: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), p. 39-40.

“The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.”

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" Design for Living http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/opinion/07behe.html", New York Times, 7 February 2005.

“If a theory claims to be able to explain some phenomenon, but does not generate even an attempt at an explanation, then it should be banished.”

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Origine: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), p. 186

“... 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.”

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

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