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Michael Behe

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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's current research involves computer simulation of the evolution of protein binding sites.

Dr. Behe accepts the ancient age of the earth (billions of years), and has stated that he has no particular reason to doubt common descent.

Publications

In addition to publishing more than 35 articles in refereed biochemical journals, Dr. Behe has written editorial features in the Boston Review, American Spectator, and New York Times.

Darwin's Black Box this compelling book discusses the implications for neo-Darwinism of what he calls "irreducibly complex" biochemical systems.
Darwin Under the Microscope In a reprint of this New York Times article (October 29, 1996), Michael Behe responds to Pope John Paul II's statement that evolution is "more than just a theory". In fact, he says, it's "old news."
Darwin's Hostages: A decision in Kansas to question evolution dogma has given rise to hysteria and intolerance by Michael Behe December 1, 1999.
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?".
Evidence for Intelligent Design from Biochemistry by Michael Behe August 10, 1996.
Fatuous Filmmaking by Michael Behe September 2001 article for World Net Daily about the PBS "Evolution" Series.
Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference by Michael Behe
Teach Evolution and Ask Hard Questions by Michael Behe. Article from The New York Times August 13, 1999 in which Behe discusses the Kansas School Board Controversy over removing evolution from the State examinations.
Simulating evolution by gene duplication of protein features that require multiple amino acid residues. Protein Sci. 2004 Oct;13(10):2651-64. Epub 2004 Aug 31.