Michael J. Behe is “an American biochemist, author, and intelligent design (ID) advocate” (Wikipedia). He is a biochemical professor at Lehigh University. Behe serves “as a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center of Science and Culture. “Behe is best known for his argument for irreducible complexity (IC)” (Wikipedia). “Behe's current research involves delineation of design and natural selection in protein structures” (Discovery Institute). He is current study “involves delineation of design and natural selection in protein structures” (Discovery Institute). Michael Behe was born on January 18, 1952 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He went to St. Margaret Mary School and graduated from Bishop McDevitt High School. In 1974, Behe graduated from Drexel University
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He says that after reading Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), by Michael Denton, he began to ask question about the scientific theory of evolution. Behe thinks that there is evidence, biochemically, that there are systems that are "irreducibly complex." (Wikipedia). Irreducibly complex is another way of saying that a system is too complex to have evolved from a simpler version. He thought that these systems could not have evolved by natural selection. Inturn, the thought might have triggered that idea that the systems have been created by an "intelligent designer". He later decided that it could be the only possible explanation for such complex and varying structures. “The logic is very similar to the watchmaker analogy given by William Paley in 1802 as proof of a divine creator” (Wikipedia). His thought on irreducibly complex systems is what he spent the most time spending research, inturn making it the thing that makes him most famous. All of Behe’s books have had thoughts on irreducibly complex systems and the scientific theory of evolution. He is most famous for his book Darwin’s Black Box : The Biochemical Challenge to
He says that after reading Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), by Michael Denton, he began to ask question about the scientific theory of evolution. Behe thinks that there is evidence, biochemically, that there are systems that are "irreducibly complex." (Wikipedia). Irreducibly complex is another way of saying that a system is too complex to have evolved from a simpler version. He thought that these systems could not have evolved by natural selection. Inturn, the thought might have triggered that idea that the systems have been created by an "intelligent designer". He later decided that it could be the only possible explanation for such complex and varying structures. “The logic is very similar to the watchmaker analogy given by William Paley in 1802 as proof of a divine creator” (Wikipedia). His thought on irreducibly complex systems is what he spent the most time spending research, inturn making it the thing that makes him most famous. All of Behe’s books have had thoughts on irreducibly complex systems and the scientific theory of evolution. He is most famous for his book Darwin’s Black Box : The Biochemical Challenge to