Michael Behe: Why Darwinism Will Eventually Collapse

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Failed ideas tend to eventually crumble under the weight of contrary evidence. Is modern evolutionary theory heading for the same fate? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks to biochemist Michael J. Behe about his core arguments for intelligent design and his recent experience sharing them at an Ivy League school. Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University and author of Darwin's Black Box, recently presented some of his ID arguments to faculty, students, and post-docs at Cornell University. Behe reveals how his talk was received and shares some of his key insights highlighting the problems with Darwinian evolution. Source

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0:00.0	In science, you can't deny the data forever.
0:03.8	And all of the data, you know, as science advances,
0:08.4	is pointing strongly away from Darwinian theory
0:12.7	and very strongly towards the need for a mind,
0:17.7	intelligence behind biology.
0:27.9	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:32.9	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:34.2	Thanks for joining us.
0:38.6	Well, today I'm welcoming Michael Behe back to the podcast to discuss his recent experience speaking at Cornell University. We'll look at a few of the arguments he made
0:43.9	for intelligent design there, how his talk was received by faculty and students, and we'll place
0:49.5	this as much as we can in the more general context of how college students in America currently view
0:55.8	evolution and alternative explanations for life in the universe. So welcome, Mike.
1:01.5	Hi, Andrew. It's great to be back with you. It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a couple years,
1:06.8	unfortunately. I love having conversations with you. So I'm glad to have you today. Now, for those who
1:14.0	may not be too familiar, can you just give us a line or two on, you know, sort of how long you've
1:21.6	been in the ID movement and some of your greatest hits? Giving away my age here, then.
1:32.5	I was one of the first generation in the ID movement.
1:39.6	I'm a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, and way back in 1996, coming up on 30 years ago, I wrote Darwin's Black Box, which first made the argument that the biochemical,
1:46.8	molecular level of life points strongly towards intelligent design and is very resistant
1:53.0	to explanation by Darwinian mechanisms.
1:56.7	Yeah.
1:57.3	And you mentioned coming up on 30 years, will there be a plan to put out a new addition or celebrate that? Yeah. And you mentioned coming up on 30 years, will there be a plan to put out a new addition or celebrate that?
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