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	Michael Behe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Behe is professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
		Behe's claims about the irreducible complexity of key cellular structures are strongly contested by the scientific community, including the Department of Biological Sciences at his own Lehigh University.
		Behe's scrupulous refusal to identify the nature of any proposed intelligent designer infuriated scientists (who saw it as a move to avoid any possibility of testing the positive claims of ID) but allowed him and the intelligent design movement to distance themselves from some of the more overtly religiously motivated critics of evolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Behe (1058 words)

	Michael Behe
		Michael J. Behe is professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a fellow of the International Society for Complexity Information and Design (ISCID (http://www.iscid.org)).
		Behe's current research involves computer simulation of the evolution of protein binding sites.
		He did his graduate studies in biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1978 for his dissertation research on sickle-cell anemia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Michael_Behe.html (165 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Michael Behe
		Michael J. Behe is professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC), and a fellow of the International Society for Complexity Information and Design (ISCID).
		In his writings, Behe does not contest Darwinian evolution for animals or plants; his claim is that evolution cannot explain a few subcellular structures and enzymatic chains.
		Behe is a Roman Catholic, and believes in common descent.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Michael-Behe (2605 words)

	Michael Behe and Intelligent Design on NPR
		Michael Behe represented himself as a scientist persuaded by the evidence, not a creationist with an agenda.
		Michael Behe, William Dembski, and their fellow creationists continue to maintain--against reason, evidence, and methodological naturalism--that biological complexity in nature is the result of intelligent design.
		Michael Behe is undoubtedly sincere in his efforts to convince others that what he is selling is authentic science, but he himself is aware that it is not.
	www.freeinquiry.com /behe-npr.html (4284 words)

	Irreducible Complexity and Michael Behe on Intelligent Design
		Michael Behe presents a briefer version of the argument from design that appears in his book.
		One of the molecular assemblages that Michael Behe claims is "irreducibly complex" is the complement system, an arm of the vertebrate immune system so named because it "complements" the effect of antibodies.
		Michael Behe, William Dembski, and other intelligent design advocates claim that the bacterial flagellum is too complex to have evolved.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/behe.html (860 words)

	The Evolution of a Skeptic
		Dr. Mike Behe, an associate professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, was one of those who presented a paper at the 1996 Mere Creation conference.
		Behe: It was significant to me because I am a scientist and I want to come to conclusions about the physical world from experiment.
		Behe: In science, a fl box is a machine or device or system that does something, but you don't know how it works; it's completely mysterious.
	www.origins.org /mc/resources/ri9602/behe.html (2838 words)

	Darwin's Black Box: Irreducible Complexity or Irreproducible Irreducibility?
		Michael Behe wrote a response to a previous version of this article and to a number of other articles by talk.origins participants.
		Behe starts with the example of a mousetrap; he claims that a standard mousetrap is "irreducibly complex".
		Behe is apparently completely ignorant of the enormous amount of literature on tandem duplication, in which one copy of a gene spawns multiple copies.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/behe/review.html (3958 words)

	Michael Behe's "Darwin's Black Box"
		In this book, Dr. Behe argues that the biochemistry of living cells is so unbelievably complex that some aspects could not have evolved.
		Behe asserts that such systems cannot evolve "directly" by a series of small modifications, each of which is a slight improvement to some initial system.
		Behe also doesn't seem to be aware of the basic way that the history of a molecule can be studied: namely, by examining its variation across a set of living species.
	www.don-lindsay-archive.org /creation/behe.html (3569 words)

	ISCID - Michael Behe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Michael J. Behe is Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a fellow of the International Society for Complexity Information and Design.
		Michael Behe graduated from Drexel University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry.
		Michael Behe has presented and debated his work at major universities throughout North America and England.
	www.iscid.org /michael-behe.php (221 words)

	Pharyngula::Thank you, Michael Behe
		Michael Behe has previously commented on his testimony in the Kitzmiller trial.
		Moreover, it is notable that both Professors Behe and Minnich admitted their personal view is that the designer is God and Professor Minnich testified that he understands many leading advocates of ID to believe the designer to be God.
		Behe thought one part of the cross-examination was such a slam dunk for him, that he singled it out for bragging:
	pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/thank_you_michael_behe (2099 words)

	The York Daily Record - Behe backs off 'mechanisms'
		Behe is the leading expert in the Dover Area School District's defense of its biology curriculum, which requires students to be made aware of intelligent design.
		Behe disagreed, reiterating his statement that intelligent design is the purposeful arrangement of parts.
		Rothschild asked Behe if he was aware that the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science both oppose its teaching in public school science classes, and even that Behe's colleagues have taken a position against it.
	www.ydr.com /search/ci_3219281 (675 words)

	The C-Files: Michael Behe
		Michael Behe, Dr. "Irreducible Complexity" himself, the star of the Intelligent Design movement's biochemical wing, spoke in New Mexico from March 4th through the 6th.
		Behe dismisses Hall's work by noting the new genes were cobbled from existing genes, and not made from scratch.
		Behe laid out his political position on the creation/evolution issue in a revealing response to a question on how to handle teaching evolution as fact at schools.
	www.nmsr.org /behe.htm (3270 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Astrology is scientific theory, courtroom told
		Under cross examination, ID proponent Michael Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, admitted his definition of “theory” was so broad it would also include astrology.
		Behe was called to the stand on Monday by the defence, and testified that ID was a scientific theory, and was not “committed” to religion.
		Behe said he had come up with his own “broader” definition of a theory, claiming that this more accurately describes the way theories are actually used by scientists.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn8178 (543 words)

	Michael Behe's Work
		Behe M.J., Snoke D.W. A response to Michael Lynch.
		Behe managed only eleven citations in nine years and not all of these are likely to be positive.
		Michael Behe’s work, the little of it that there is, is not being cited because it is not science.
	www.home.duq.edu /~lampe/BeheCV2.html (1929 words)

	Michael J. Behe
		Michael J. Behe Ph.D. Professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University, advocate of Intelligent Design, and originator of the term "Irreducible Complexity," which uses the bacterial motor and the mousetrap as examples.
		Michael Behe, is a well-known proponent of “intelligent design.” While we respect Prof.
		Behe's right to express his views, they are his alone and are in no way endorsed by the department.
	www.epicidiot.com /evo_cre/michael_behe.htm (1928 words)

	Intelligent Design? A Special Report from Natural History Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Behe's contention that each and every piece of a machine, mechanical or biochemical, must be assembled in its final form before anything useful can emerge is just plain wrong.
		If Behe wishes to suggest that the intricacies of nature, life, and the universe reveal a world of meaning and purpose consistent with a divine intelligence, his point is philosophical, not scientific.
		Michael J. Behe, who received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978, is a professor of biological sciences at Pennsylvania's Lehigh University.
	www.actionbioscience.org /evolution/nhmag.html (6262 words)

	Lehigh Department of Biological Sciences
		I have dubbed such systems "irreducibly complex." (Behe 1996b, 2001) Irreducibly complex systems appear to me to be very difficult to explain within a traditional gradualistic Darwinian framework, because the function of the system only appears when the system is essentially complete.
		(Behe 1996b, 2001) The proposal of intelligent design has proven to be extremely controversial, both in the scientific community (for example, see Brumfel, G. Nature434:1062‑1065) and in the general news media.
		Behe, M.J. "Design in the Details: The Origin of Biomolecular Machines." In Darwinism, Design and Public Education, Campbell, J.A. and Meyer, S.C. eds., Michigan State University Press, pp.
	www.lehigh.edu /~inbios/faculty/behe.html (370 words)

	Ebon Musings: Book Review: Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe
		Although Behe still doubts certain aspects of evolutionary biology, it is reassuring to hear that he is not as anti-science as some of his ideological allies.
		Behe claims that biologists are utterly baffled by these systems and have no idea how they could have come into existence, but this is false.
		Behe makes no attempt to engage the evolutionary models for the origin of any system in detail or show what, if anything, is wrong with them.
	www.ebonmusings.org /atheism/books/darwinsblackbox.html (4916 words)

	Amazon.com: Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution: Books: Michael J. Behe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Behe manages to sound quite convincing and quite scientific at times, yet (what is known of) his hypotheses are widely rejected by the scientific community.
		To be sure, Behe does express a desire for acceptance by mainstream science and actually manages to seem quite incredulous of the casual indifference he continues to face; but actions, as they say, speak louder than words and Mr.
		Behe does to prove any system so complex as to be irreducibly complex is to simply say it is. We thus see the necessity for the obviously purposed inundation with the clearly over the top details of the systems Mr.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684834936?v=glance (4877 words)

	Michael Behe
		Behe responds to his critics and maintains that there are "very few" scientific papers that attempt to explain the Darwinian details of irreducibly complex systems.
		It has recently been argued by Michael Behe that at the biochemical level a type of complexity exists -- irreducible complexity -- that cannot possibly have arisen as the result of natural, evolutionary processes, and must instead be the product of (supernatural) intelligent design.
		Behe and his book must be as gold-dust among the dross of the general run of creationists and their so-called literature.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/science/creationism/behe.html (1290 words)

	Michael Behe - CreationWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Michael J. Behe has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and is professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute, and a fellow of the International Society for Complexity Information and Design.
		Behe accepts the ancient age of the earth (billions of years), and has stated that he has no particular reason to doubt common descent.
		Experimental Support for Regarding Functional Classes of Proteins to be Highly Isolated from Each Other Paper by Michael Behe presented at the 1992 SMU Symposium and printed in the conference proceedings "Darwinism, Science or Philosophy?".
	www.creationwiki.net /index.php?title=Michael_Behe (324 words)

	Darwin's Black Box. (Michael Behe).
		Behe's biological examples of an IC system were cilia, flagellum and the blood clotting system.
		A potential example of irreducible complexity not given by Behe is the interdependence of DNA and proteins, which results in the notorious difficulty of explaining the origin of life.
		Behe mentions that humans cannot produce vitamin C (ascorbic acid), because the gene that is responsible for the last step in the synthesis of vitamin C is not functional in humans.
	home.wxs.nl /~gkorthof/korthof8.htm (5781 words)

	Design on the Defensive
		Behe's work, which has become the scientific cornerstone of anti-evolutionists in the "Intelligent Design" movement, is really nothing new.
		What Behe did in his book was to take Rev. Paley's 200-year old "argument from design," dust it off, and wrap it in the shiny new cloth of biochemistry.
		I devoted a full chapter to Behe's ideas, and presented a series of examples showing how Darwinian mechanisms could, and in some cases did, produce the "irreducibly complex" biochemical machines that Behe regards as proof of design.
	www.millerandlevine.com /km/evol/DI/Design.html (687 words)

	Michael J. Behe
		Michael Behe is part of the intelligent design movement, who also include Phillip E Johnson, William A Dembski, Stephen C Meyer, Paul Nelson, Robert C Koons and Dr. Walter L Bradley.
		Behe, "Histone deletion mutants challenge the molecular clock hypothesis," Trends in Biochemical Science 15: 374-376, October 1990.
		Biochemist Michael Behe has grapsed at the "third rail" of the academy, the shadowland between science and faith.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/rossuk/Behe.htm (893 words)

	Refuting Michael Behe's "Irreducible Complexity" with Roman Arches
		Ev paper shows that the genomes of the evolved creatures have exactly the properties required by Behe to be "irreducibly complex" and yet they evolve from scratch.
		To use Behe's example, which he mentioned, the flagellum is constructed by binding parts together and I suggest (based on advanced molecular information theory) that its mechanism will eventually be shown to involve binding reactions.
		Ev program (which I published the year after these emails) shows clearly that the complexity can be modeled in precise parallel to the natural genetic control systems and that the Ev model gives results identical to the naturally observed ones, namely that Rsequence evolves towards and oscillates irregularly around Rfrequency.
	www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov /~toms/papers/ev/behe (2098 words)

	Michael Behe
		A fellow with the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, Michael Behe has conducted foundatonal work for intelligent design theory and he is one of the leading members of the group today called the "Intelligent Design Movement".
		We are very happy to have Dr. Behe, an expert in biochemical design, as a member of the IDEA Center Advisory Board.
		Behe is a research scientists and is frequently busy with speaking engagements.
	www.ideacenter.org /contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/775 (251 words)

	Stephen E. Jones: Intelligent Design: Michael J. Behe, complete links
		Michael Behe - Presentation: Evolution and Providence and Scientific and Religious Perspectives Workshops in 2000 and 2001, The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
		Michael Behe - Presentation: Yale Conference-Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe November 2-4 2000.
		Chat with Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box: the Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, 5 December 2000.
	members.iinet.net.au /~sejones/idbehemj.html (706 words)

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