blood clotting cascade

Michael J. Behe
July 1, 2002
Intelligent Design

Michael Ruse is Just Confused!

Michael J. Behe
July 1, 2002
Intelligent Design

This article appeared in a discussion on the topic of intelligent design published in the July/August, 2002 issue of Research News & Opportunity In Science And Theology. Other contributoring thinkers included Karl Giberson, Michael Ruse, Eugenie Scott, William Dembski, Robert Pennock, and Jonathan Wells. If nothing else, Michael Ruse has chutzpah. Let me tell a little story about blood clotting, Read More ›

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View of red, blood-like liquid patterns
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Michael J. Behe
July 31, 2000
Intelligent Design, Research & Analysis

In Defense of the Irreducibility of the Blood Clotting Cascade

Michael J. Behe
July 31, 2000
Intelligent Design, Research & Analysis
In Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution I devoted a chapter to the mechanism of blood clotting, arguing that it is irreducibly complex and therefore a big problem for Darwinian evolution. Since my book came out, as far as I am aware there have been no papers published in the scientific literature giving a detailed scenario or experiments to show how natural selection could have built the system. However three scientists publishing outside science journals have attempted to respond. Read More ›