Michael Behe Quotes

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'

Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.

My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.

Science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.