Michael Behe Quotes

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

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

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

This fact immediately suggested a singular event – that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event – the creation, the beginning of the universe.

The question of how the eye works – that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina – simply could not be answered at that time.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.