Author: Michael Behe

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, comparative biology, complex functional systems, Cornelius Hunter, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, gene duplications, Google Scholar, honesty, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, mutations, National Geographic, natural selection, Nature Chemical Biology, Potemkin village, random variation, recombination, Richard Dawkins, Rutgers University, Theodosius Dobzhansky, whales}

Dan Stern Cardinale: Comparative Biology, Invincible Ignorance

_{Michael Behe
May 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Stern Cardinale loses it at the point where I note that Darwin-boosters go mute when asked how complex traits evolve (such as, say, those of bats or whales). Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, cellular machines, Charles Darwin, children, common descent, devolution, DNA, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, factories, headlines, machines, Modern Synthesis, molecules, multiverse, National Geographic, natural genetic engineering, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, parents, Potemkin village, protoplasm}

Darwinism Is a Potemkin Theory of Evolution

_{Michael Behe
April 25, 2025

Evolution, Mathematics, Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning

10}

As with the legendary fake villages, evolutionary theory consists of a thin façade cloaking a lack of substance. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, breast cancer, Darwin Devolves, elephants, evolution, extinction, genes, genetic information, genomes, machinery, mutations, proteins, The Blind Watchmaker, woolly mammoth}

Even More Mammoth Devolution

_{Michael Behe
April 11, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

3}

The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arctic, brown bear, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, deletions, devolution, DNA, evolution, genes, genetic information, indels, metabolism, mutations, natural selection, Pleistocene, random mutation, Research, seal blubber, woolly mammoth, yeast}

#7 Story of 2022: Mammoth Support for Devolution

_{Michael Behe
December 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
August 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Arctic, brown bear, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, deletions, devolution, DNA, evolution, extinction, genes, genetic information, indels, metabolism, mutations, natural selection, Pleistocene, random mutation, Research, seal blubber, woolly mammoth, yeast}

Mammoth Support for Devolution

_{Michael Behe
August 15, 2022

Evolution, Science

6}

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Physics
Science
Tagged
, adulthood, Bethlehem, cattle, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, elephants, eukaryotic cells, genetic code, human mind, Isaac Newton, lactase persistence, lactose, metabolism, milk, molecular machines, mutations, nucleotides, Pennsylvania, sugar, weather, worms}

Much Ado About Lactase Persistence

_{Michael Behe
July 29, 2022

Evolution, Physics, Science

5}

Nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about brand new results. This week the topic was “lactase persistence.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Darwin Devolves, devolution, elephants, Ethiopia, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, ivory poaching, malaria, Nature Microbiology, parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, tuskless elephants, tusks}

Devolution Watch: Malaria Gnaws Off a Leg

_{Michael Behe
September 30, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

3}

The most frequently used diagnostic test kit checks for the presence in the patient’s blood of either of two similar malarial proteins, called pfhrp2 or pfhrp3. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
June 10, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, complex specified information, computer program, Darwinian evolution, eyes, information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lydia McGrew, mind, minds, philosophers, purpose, purposeful arrangement of parts, spandrels, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer}

Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

_{Michael Behe
June 10, 2021

Intelligent Design

4}

A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 29, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemist, common cold, coronavirus, COVID-19, DNA, Ebola, epidemic, evolution, genetic information, HIV, human genome, Immune System, intelligent design, MERS, molecular machines, mutations, philosopher, protein coat, proteins, receptor, RNA, SARS, skeleton key, virosphere, viruses}

#4 Story of 2020: Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

_{Michael Behe
December 29, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The waves may be huge and the surface roiling, but the deeper waters continue as they always have, essentially undisturbed. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, bacterial flagellum, Brown University, Cambridge University Press, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Debating Design, function, Irreducible Complexity, John McDonald, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Michael Ruse, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), parts, Paul Davies, Richard Swinburne, Stuart Kauffman, toothpicks, type III secretion system, William A. Dembski}

Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

_{Michael Behe
December 18, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Read More ›