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Michael J. Behe é um bioquímico norte-americano, professor-adjunto de bioquímica da Universidade Lehigh, Pensilvânia, e defensor do Design Inteligente como teoria cientifíca, além de membro sênior do Center for Science and Culture do instituto de promoção da ideologia criacionista Discovery Institute. Behe é famoso pelo seu argumento da complexidade irredutível, um conceito que alega que algumas estruturas são muito complexas no nível bioquímico para serem adequadamente explicadas como resultado de mecanismos evolucionários e, portanto, seriam o resultado de um design inteligente.

As alegações sobre a complexidade irredutível de estruturas celulares são rejeitadas pela comunidade científica. O Department of Biological Sciences na Universidade de Lehigh publicou uma declaração no site oficial que diz "É nossa posição coletiva que o design inteligente não tem base científica, não foi testado experimentalmente, e não deve ser tratado como se fosse científico." As ideias de Behe sobre o design inteligente têm sido rejeitadas pela comunidade científica e caracterizadas como pseudociência.

O testemunho de Behe em Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District é citado extensamento pelo juiz em sua decisão de que o design inteligente não é ciência, mas essencialmente religião em sua natureza.

✵ 18. Janeiro 1952
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“Muitas pessoas, incluindo muitos cientistas importantes e bem respeitados, simplesmente não querem que exista nada além da natureza. Eles não querem um ser sobrenatural para interferir na natureza.”

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Michael Behe: Frases em inglês

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

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