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to Light to Flight: Monarch - the Miracle Butterflywhere he elaborates on
this issue.

Michael J. Behe is one of the most renowned scientists to believe that
the cosmos and all living things are the work of an intelligent design. Behe
is a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He
has published numerous articles in well-known newspapers such as The
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New York Timesand Boston ReviewBehe is the author of Darwin's Black
Box, which has proved that biologically the theory of evolution cannot be
true, distributed in over 80 reprints worldwide.
Behe proves the invalidity of the theory of evolution with a concept he
calls "irreducible complexity". A c c o rding to this idea, many organs are
composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the
basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the
system to effectively cease functioning. For this reason, coincidental or
gradual development is out of the question.
In Darwin's Black Box, Behe wrote:
They were designed not by the laws of nature, not by chance and
necessity; rather; they were planned. The designer knew what the
systems would look like when they were completed, then took steps to
bring the systems about. Life on earth at its most fundamental level, in
its most critical components, is the product of
intelligent activity. The conclusion of
intelligent design flows naturally from the
data itself… Inferring that biochemical
systems were designed by an intelligent
agent is a humdrum process that requires
no new principles of logic and
science. It comes simply from the
h a rd work that biochemistry has
done over the past forty years,

Michael J. Behe

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