Intelligent design and the new atheism: Evolution has limits
PROVO — According to Michael Behe, there are limits to what evolution can explain.
Behe spoke Friday at BYU during the Wheatley Institution's "Symposium on Responding to the New Atheism." He quoted a statement signed by 39 Nobel award recipients saying Darwinian evolution was the "unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection."
For Behe, however, evolution via random and gradual mutations can't explain some very complex biological systems or "machines." Biology shows signs of an intelligent designer.
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