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Q&A with Michael Behe: Why Don’t More Scientists Embrace Intelligent Design?

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This week we are highlighting the 41-part video course from DiscoveryU., “Michael Behe Investigates Evolution and Intelligent Design.” What kind of an instructor is Professor Behe? A remarkably lucid one. To demonstrate that, we have been offering a series of informal Q&A sessions with him. Here he answers a common question: Why don’t more scientists embrace ID as he does?

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It sounds like an excellent challenge. Behe has three answers, starting from the observation that scientists are only humans, after all: “They don’t just grind logic without worrying or caring about other things, too.” Enjoy his analysis — and find more information about the video course here.

David Klinghoffer

Senior Fellow and Editor, Science and Culture Today
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.
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