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Michael Behe Still from Secrets in the Cell

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Michael Behe

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November 18, 2020

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appearance of design, bacterial flagellum, biochemistry, Biological Information, Bruce Alberts, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, DNA, Eric Davidson, Evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, genetic information, information, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Lehigh University, Michael Levine, molecular biology, molecular machinery, Neo-Darwinism, origins science, protein nanomachines, scientific consensus, scientific paradigm, The Edge of Evolution, unguided evolution}

Michael Behe Reads from His New Book

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November 18, 2020

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On this ID the Future, Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe reads from A Mousetrap for Darwin, his latest book making the case against blind evolution and for intelligent design. The volume contains some brand new material alongside a substantial collection of essays he’s written over the years in response to critics of his three previous intelligent design books. His pro-Darwin critics have jumped all over Behe. Some have even claimed he’s ignored their objections. A Mousetrap for Darwin gives the lie to that charge. Behe has answered his critics, and done so decisively, in everything from the New York Times and prominent blogs to major science journals. Listen in as he lays the groundwork for his fourth fascinating book, in his inimitably clear and winsome style.

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Michael Flannery

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October 14, 2020

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Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropocentrism, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian theism, Darwinian theists, Darwinism, Deborah Haarsma, Edinburgh University, Edmund Grant, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Collins, freethinkers, HMS Beagle, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, Janet Brown, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mind/body, philosophical materialism, Plinian Society, Theism, theistic evolution, Theory of Evolution, Tom Wolfe, William Dembski, World of Life}

Michael Flannery on the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview

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October 14, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, science historian and host Michael Keas talks with fellow science historian Michael Flannery about the newly updated book Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russell Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Flannery tells of Darwin’s involvement in the Plinian Society, a “freethinkers” group at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine as a teenager. It was there that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, the worldview that laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. Flannery also speaks of Alfred Russel Wallace’s “intelligent evolution” and how it differs from Darwinism and from today’s theistic evolution — what Flannery prefers to call “Darwinian theism.”

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Michael Behe

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August 5, 2020

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__edited, bacterial flagellum, Bacteriophage T4, cellular control systems, co-option, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin Devolves, embryo, Evolution, flagella, gears, genetic regulatory networks, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Kenneth Miller, magnetotactic bacterium, MO1, random mutation, theistic evolution, wiring diagrams}

Michael Behe Answers Your Questions

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August 5, 2020

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This episode of ID the Future features Darwin Devolves author Michael Behe. The Lehigh University biologist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow sat down to answer some of the most common questions put to him about evolution and intelligent design, and here we collect his answers to three of those questions: (1) What are some new examples of irreducibly complex systems? (2) What are some objections to ID from well-known critics? And (3) Why aren’t you convinced by theistic evolution arguments?

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Michael Behe

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July 1, 2020

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citrate, Darwin Devolves, devolution, E. coli, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Richard Lenski}

Michael Behe on E. Coli and a Citrate Death Spiral

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July 1, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, biochemist Michael Behe reviews the Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State, where Richard Lenski’s team was initially excited to see what they thought was a new species forming in their flasks of E. coli. As Behe has written at Evolution News, one flask of E. coli in Lenski’s experiment evolved the ability to metabolize (“eat”) citrate in the presence of oxygen. But along with it came multiple mutations breaking genes, degrading genetic information, and ultimately increasing the bacteria’s death rates. It all goes to support Behe’s thesis in Darwin Devolves: evolution is good at creating niche advantages by breaking things; it isn’t good at building fundamentally novel form, the very thing the grand narrative of modern evolutionary theory purports to do.

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Michael Behe

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February 10, 2020

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__edited, bacterial flagellum, blood-clotting cascade, burden of proof, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Evolution, gradualism, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Lehigh University, Phillip Johnson, Richard Lewontin, Roger Olsen, The Edge of Evolution, vision, Walter Bradley}

Michael Behe on the Design Idea That Won’t Go Away (and Shouldn’t)

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February 10, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Witt caught up with Darwin’s Black Box author and biochemist Michael Behe at the 2020 Dallas Science and Faith conference, where the two discuss an idea that many wish would just go away, but hasn’t. Charles Darwin himself told us how his evolutionary theory could be overturned: identify a biological system that couldn’t possibly have evolved by “numerous success successive slight modifications.” It’s to Darwin’s credit that he put his theory in “empirical harm’s way,” to quote philosopher Del Ratzsch, but as Witt and Behe note, Darwin also cleverly placed the burden of proof on his opponents, an arguably dubious maneuver given that his proposed evolutionary mechanism has never once been observed to generate a fundamentally new biological form or molecular machine. Still, Behe has taken up the challenge. Listen in as he discusses how his “irreducible complexity” arguments against Darwinism have fared, and for a teaser about an upcoming anthology where Behe directly engages his critics.

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Michael Behe

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December 9, 2019

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__edited, astronomy, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, devolution, Evolution, irreducible complexity, microbiology, mind/body, molecular biology, origins science, Richard Dawkins}

Michael Behe Opens a Black Box for Christmas

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December 9, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe discusses the closing sections of his new book Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution. He compares evolutionary biology in Darwin’s time and today to the world of astronomy before and after the telescope was invented. The cell was a black box to Darwin and his contemporaries. Today we can explore that black box like never before, much better even than even two decades ago, allowing us to observe what evolution can actually do at the molecular level. According to Behe, the answer is, not much. Evolution can create niche advantages by breaking certain things, but it doesn’t build fundamentally new structures or new machines. That’s because it can’t do what mind can do. It can’t purposefully arrange things. Behe and host Andrew McDiarmid discuss what it might mean for origins science to again recognize, and allow room in its explanatory toolkit for, the unique causal powers of mind. Finally, Behe reflects on his critics’ confident predictions that they’d have the evidence to refute his groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box within 20 years. It’s now been 20 years, so where does the score stand? Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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Michael Behe

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November 11, 2019

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Brazil, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, degradative mutations, Discovery-Mackenzie, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mackenzie University, Marcos Eberlin, Neo-Darwinism, São Paulo Adventist University, The Edge of Evolution}

Behe Barnstorms Brazil

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November 11, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Darwin Devolves author and Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe sits down with host Rob Crowther to discuss Behe’s recent speaking trip to Brazil, and on where he sees the Darwinism/design debate heading in the next few years. Read More ›

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Michael Behe

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April 15, 2019

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__edited, adaptation, Darwin Devolves, devolution, Natural Selection, The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution}

Michael Behe on Natural Selection’s Inability to Build New Systems

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April 15, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, biochemist Michael Behe speaks further about his new book Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution. Behe explains how evolutionists in the past had freedom to use their imaginations to suppose ways evolution could achieve major innovations, but new research at the molecular level now reveals obstacles previously unimagined. The most productive adaptations in nature tend overwhelmingly to be in one direction, Behe says, degrading or destroying genes, and no series of mutations have ever demonstrated the kind of coordinated effects needed to produce new systems.

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Michael Behe

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April 1, 2019

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Michael Behe on How Darwin Devolves Everything from Birds to Bacteria

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April 1, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, biochemist Michael Behe discusses part 3 of his new book Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution. Behe explains new research showing that although evolution really can bring about adaptive changes, it does so at the nickel-and-dime level of genus and species, and apparently only by breaking or degrading genes. Behe further argues that natural selection, supposed by evolutionists to be the great driver of new developments, actually limits them.

Michael Behe Takes on the Darwinian Add-Ons

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March 27, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid interviews biochemist Michael Behe about Part 2 of his new book Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution. In this part of the book, Behe covers current theories for the origin of complex new interactive systems, from Neo-Darwinism and neutral theory to evo-devo and the multiverse hypothesis, and a few others as well. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.