Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe (Season 1 Compilation) 

Dr. Behe, I read your book "Darwin's Black Box" while I was an undergrad. It is to this day one of the best books describing the amazing complexity and beauty of creation. Thank you for being a voice of reason in science today!!

Behe really comes across to me in a truthful scientific way. This is good. Life is more complex than our own minds will ever be able to comprehend.

Nice to see Dr. Behe brought his theories to the small screen. His academic works are impressive. I wish every high school studenty could see this series. I gave his book, "Darwin's Black Box" to a young lady who was studying to be an MD. She assured me she would read it. She has been a practicing Dr. in Canada for about a decade now, but he never read Behe's book. A shame.

I wish my children had science teachers like this when they were in school. This is amazing.

Behe, as well as Denton are both published in peer-reviewed journals. Fascinating stuff.

Well done Discovery Science... Thank you...

Thank you Dr. Behe for this presentation.

Everyone on earth should see this and learn.

Intelligent Design is everywhere

It's hard to go against the stream, it's the right thing that you are all doing.

Quite a fantastic presentation. This video should be useful for all schools around the entire world. As a teacher myself I have experienced a lot of resistance when discussing the topic of origin of life. Colleagues often get angry when i want to present a another wiev than evolution for the students.

Im loving this series. Thank you!

"Of the simplest machines, a toothpick has no moving parts. The only way to make it is by machines and engineering. Given every tree on the planet and infinite time, evolution could never make a toothpick. The only thing "evolution" can do is rot the wood." Dr. Joseph Mastropaolo

I had no idea this series was going on! Even though I was a biologist, I was stunned when I read Behe's book: "Darwin's Black Box" back when it first came out. It is so great to see visuals put to rather complicated concepts to make it more understandable. I'm looking forward to this series immensely.

Thank you Dr. Behe for this excellent series. I have enjoyed your DBB book very much, but the quality and beauty in the production of this video is just outstanding. God bless you, sir.

Watched these before and found it good, much needed compilation.

A true scientist‼️ With correct methodology‼️ Coming to the best explanation‼️

Great information, thank you very much for sharing. May God Bless you and your loved ones...

This was beautifully put together, just like life...

Wonderful explanation of God’s design!!!

What's astounding is not only both the complexity and irreducible complexity of the mechanisms in the cell , but the mind boggling capability's of those mechanisms to create and read code and then transcribe it so other mechanisms can build specified mechanisms to function with 1000's of other nanomachines to create an infrastructure similar to modern cities. Then somehow these cells have to interact with trillions of other cells and have the foresight to build every known living creature on the planet .And all of this from inanimate molecules.

Superb production quality, images, electron microscopy, explanation, and argumentation.

This is the best series on the channel so far. Simple, clear, concise, to the point; easy for a general audience to comprehend what would otherwise be difficult concepts to grasp. Also a very professionally shot and edited video series. Highly recommended! I also especially appreciate the questions that are brought up at the end. It is a great way to pick up discussion with other people on those very important follow up questions about the Creator. An interesting question I would leave as a follow up, essentially the same at the end of the series: Who would you say is the Creator (i.e. name), and what other lines of evidence would you say (if any) demonstrates that specific identity? 🧐💁‍♂️

I am learning alot from your channel :)

Very enjoyable. Very well done. Thank you!

this is really a voice of reason. it makes sense and it is very logical. Thanks to all who made this possible.

Thanks for your amazing work Dr Behe.

... great... a beautiful channel discovery with an intriguing subject.

Dr. Behe thank you for making these video series. They're more enjoyable and brings out what one would rather struggle to imagine while reading the books. Your concept of Irreducible Complexity defined I suppose what many people including myself had imagined but didn't have a phrase to sum it all up. It is a concept that has become a nightmare for evolutionary scientists. Well done for the simple examples that you use to explain complex systems to laymen making your series easy to understand by anyone.

I live in a golden age of discovery 👨‍🏫

i believe why so many Doctors misunderstand the living cell is because instead of the word evolution they should use the word education. The cells learn just like our knowledge not evolved with subtraction. keep up this work Michael. it starts with the belief to the saving of the life.

Thank you Dr. Behe for the exceptionally detailed explanation about the way that life must need hyper intelligence in the very purposefully designed lifeforms, in contrast to the imbecilic ideas of Charles Darwin and those who adhere to his non-existent explanation for the Origin of the Species by Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. If Charles had the knowledge of today's molecular biology and genetics at his disposal when he thought to write his book, I would highly doubt that he would ever have written about such an inconclusive theory, and perhaps today biological science would be far more developed, and far closer to reality than his fictional work that has been adopted as fact by the secular populous in the universities.

I think it's useful to point out that after years of mutating E.coli and over 60,000 generations, Lenski still has E.coli. The little buggers refuse to evolve to their so-called next stage of evolution . Hmmmmmm.

Great series!

Thanks to scientist like you and Dr. Stephen Meyer and Dr. james Tour….maybe we can change the world……love one another…..be thankful God made you and this paradise!

Great series

Endless thanks. Well done, it makes so much sense

Fascinating. Thank you.

Very nice production. Thank you.

simple, but profound insights

Evolutionary biology is probably the only branch of science that affirms that programs exist without programmer(s).

Huge fan!!

It's a shame that politics has made it so difficult to explore, publish and teach the truths science reveals.

Life changing - pardon the pun. Thank you Dr Behe. enlightening!

Great video! I enjoyed it very much. Thank you!

I really appreciate the conclusion

I read Dr. Behe's book "Darwin's Black Box" about 20 years ago and the principles from that book form the basis for my discussions on the subject of evolution with agnostics and atheists. That book was absolutely brilliant. Thank you for your contribution of reason to an increasingly dishonest academic world.

Just something that's bothered me for years: Dr. Behe describes the bacterial flagellum motor as an "outboard motor" Its actually an inboard-outboard motor. The "engine" is inside the cell, the "propeller" is outside the cell's membrane wall. Love your work, Dr. Behe. Thank you.

Great series learned much with this video. Thank you, Dr.Behe and the Discovery Institute.

the mouse trap is a good illustration, however where did the metal parts come from as well as the wood which is far more complex than the mouse trap that is a part of. 😊😊😊

Outstanding presentation. Extreme complexity woven into understandable parallels of reality. I hope this helps people understand and appreciate the gifts of their very existence.

Great series, thank you. Would like to see "real/SEM" or Computer Simulation" added to the graphics to know what we are really looking at. Also a discussion of the mathematics behind changes in cells to a new species (Meyer et al) as that describes the crazy odds of a change of species happening in a specific time would be useful.

Outstanding work, thank you!

Fascinating I always believed Darwinism to be a stumbling block upsurped by the wonderful marine biology, two thirds of the earth was covered in water and the Seahorse is a type of enigma to Darwin's theory that at the time was amiss from his field of studies, the cell is like the mind of God, it has its own science creation.

"The kingdom of God is within you" - Jesus Christ

A wonderful presentation. Thank you Sir. Glory to the creator .

This was great. I feel like Darwin's theory was more of a visualization assumption of life and perhaps due to media suppression or lack of knowledge, no one debated it... same reason why evolutionists shun away any other idea out there.

This was excellent

brilliant ,thank you

This was beautifully made. Very strong case for design.

Even more astonishing in organisms, IMO, is that these separate 'machines' are integrated into a 'system of systems'. The several 'systems' of life integrate with parsimonious system/sub-system interfaces. The individual systems are non-deterministically related; that is any system doesn't __need__ any other system, in many cases; yet the multiple systems cooperate to a result that is not determinable by any one of the component systems. This makes the organism even more astonishingly designed and introduces a necessary transcendence to it: that is, the design information and objective must be external to the organism. Related to this conceptually is the 'parsimonious' (or economical) fit of organism functions and operations within the external constraints and opportunities of our environment. What I mean is the close congruence with form (of the creature) its function and the external target/s of that function. The 'fit' is too neat to be reasonably attributable to chance, in fact by orders of magnitude. Example, our hands, with opposable thumbs: they grip far better that is probably necessary for most operations they are called upon to perform. In fact, in most of these operations we could get away without an opposable thumb. It would simply be less convenient and less efficient, more awkward for us. Is 'awkwardness' going to be 'noticed' in comparative reproductive success of variants within the species? Probably no.

Loving this, but it would be so much better without the background music.

Beautiful!

Very good work...please write in turkish language

My intuition says that animal adaptation to available foods is a hidden key in genetic variability. For example, high protein content fosters ample muscle buildup, and would be more likely in carnivorous animals whose teeth are strong with adequate gestational calcium intake. The higher nutritional dietary stability would promote health in offspring so they are more likely to flourish in changing habitat.

Who wrote the genetic code?

Thank Dr. Behe; that was very cleverly put all together, with very high quality, you really have to be full of hatred if this Video didn’t make stop and reconsider your thought for a while The most l liked about it; when the Dr said we don’t know the why or how ; but that doesn’t change the fact how intelligent is the one; if any, designed it .

I didn’t know what the term irreducible complexity was as a young adult but when I asked teachers how a strand of dna was miraculously made and then a cell wall just appears out of nowhere I got told…. Nothing… absolutely nothing!! Except the occasional “ shut up”!!

Excellent.

I like how the bird agrees with him after every sentence.

The more I see the more I know the hand of God at work in creation. At one time science and religion were good bed fellows, however scientists became arrogant and made statements such as “Science has made God redundant” or “God is a God of the Gaps”. Well, one of the most accomplished and well known scientists, Einstein, once said “There’s only one thing worse than ignorance and that is arrogance”. I suppose he meant, an ignorant person can understand he is ignorant and change, But an arrogant person always thinks they know everything, and so there is absolutely no chance they will ever see who and what they are so the can never change!!! Please recognise the times in which we live, the end times, so seek the Lord Jesus Christ while He can still be found, He’s already given His life for you, and will forgive you. God bless 🙏🙏🙏

if we are being humbled. we should acknowlege that : the more we know about creation, the more we realised we don't know. Richard Feyman was humble enough to say: what i did not create, i do not understand.

"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” 1st Peter 3:15

We just love Dr Behe... Egyptians I mean

All Truth passes thru 3 stages: 1. It is ridiculed. 2. It is violently opposed. 3. It is accepted as being self-evident. Schopenhauer

What an absolutely fantastic series! It is extremely sad all biology students are not required to view this program. There are so many( like me) who leave the school system with the impression if our teachers dont have evolution and origins of life locked down then the towering intellects of science must know! If our education system would speak truth and admit all their musings boil down to massive speculation more young minds would jump into the search for truth ! Instead like our teachers they/we take the theories at face value and parrot what in fact is just utterly meaningless dogma. Life and the universe manifested from a mindless luck process. I submit a mindless chance luck explanation for this reality is utterly absurd and never can be shown to be a causal agent as any attempt to recreate some supposedly pointless luck process can never be done without intelligent control and manipulation of matter and enviroment thusly rendering the intended goal pointless and meaningless! all complexity of information such as found in computers and cells has never and cannot be witnessed to manifest from non intelligence . Only in the fantasy musings of the human mind can blind pointless luck produce coherent purposful funtionality driven by puposeful information.

Nice

"Things that we can't see, at least with our eyes..." ummm, no. I think you meant to say, with our unaided eyes. We still see them with our eyes but only with the use of mechanical aids from magnifying glass to electron microscope. And if you want to get technical, our eyes actually don't see-our brain interprets signals from the eyes to produce the images in our mind that we call sight. But that's a whole other video....

Very enjoyable, intelligent and logical compilation expressed with impartiality and humility. It is self evident. The existence of life points to God. Michael Behe knows it but he is simply waiting for our weak and slow minds to catch up. The Holy Bible gave us the necessary information before Charles Darwin and evolutionary biologists existed. John 1:3 He (Jesus) was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools... Such is the education system in schools around the world today, flatly refusing to acknowledge a supremely intelligent mind and an awesome creator of astonishing power. Instead believing in foolish possibilities like random evolution, such as the wind carving out the faces on Mt Rushmore by itself so the rock face closely bears the resemblance of ex US presidents. Richard Dawkins and his ilk would argue that if given enough time, with the right wind and sun exposure, such phenomena as the face carvings on Mt Rushmore can be made entirely possible by chance through many, many millions of years of 'focussed weathering'. I shudder to think about when Richard Dawkins faces God one day, that God will not be gentle and understanding towards him about his confusion. God will likely say to him and others like him that they are simply without excuse and that their academic arguments during their lives in this world have been nothing but fatuous grandstanding behind which there is defiance, age old human pride and stubbornness.

Praise God for all the creatures He made!

The starting point of the theory of evolution, begins with belief and faith of 'something'. The theory of creation identifies the 'something' that evolutionists refuse to acknowledge.

wow, how great thou art oh Lord. through a telescope is your magnificent cosmos declearing your glory, under a microscope is another dimention of wonders. we are so blessed to live in such a cinematic age. your wisdom oh Lord are infinite. hallelujah. let all sing praises to our God.

Thanks for this wonderfully prepared video presentation. Loved it.

Imagine thinking the parts of a mouse trap is analogous to DNA!

I just found your channel and I can’t wait to watch all the videos!

In watching this and other videos, I see that at 29:18 on Professor Behe's video, it is stated " Removing just 1 part of the flagellum makes it dead in the water." On the otherside of the "argument " in the video by Professor Kenneth Miller "The collapse of Intelligent Design," says at the 44:05 +/- minute mark,, that it is possible to remove 40 parts and it keeps working. I just want to know what is the actual facts.

This series is a real GEWEL of beauty and INTELLIGENT DESIGN! question: how can it be that only DEVOLUTION is quoted? As far as I know, in lensky experiment, apart from adaptation through DEVOLUTION, it happened also some de novo gene adaptation... some gene can appear de novo, it's been observed, and also symbiogenesis and other particular increasing in gene function it has been observed. I sincerely want to understand this topic, since nobody seems to present a complete picture of the observable evolution phenomenon.

SO IF OUR EYES ARE SO perfectly designed and irreducibly complex ,then why do so many people have to wear glasses????

The question that must be asked is where did the first living cell come from?

I thought my wife was human but now I think she is more Machine😂😂😂😂

Behe gave my Christian foundation the specific boost to refute 200 years of nonsense....

Thank you for making this so easy to understand. I just get stuck when you say that we "know" and then show the intricate machines within the cell. It's not that I don't believe in a creator because I see it clearly from a macro level and believe in God, but these images of micro machines are clearly images created by a computer. Do you have actual images of these things or is this theoretical?

Note: The mouse trap actually has 9 parts, not 5. There are 4 hold down loops that hold the other parts to the board. Let's call that 'junk DNA', still required, even if it wasn't noticed.

"Evolution states that, given enough time..." Time is one thing our World is very short on these days. See - "Huge media blackout regarding supermoons" on the net See - "Pole shift of Noah's day about to happen again?" on the net Good Journeys All

Guys like this STILL don't admit how much they don't know. They use words like adapt and evolve and mutate and don't have any CLUE as to the origins, mechanisms, physics, and much of the chemistry just for starters and yet they talk like they understand what's going on. I feel like the mechanic and just want people like this fellow to go "stand over there".

Brilliantly produced video in every way. The dogmatists won't allow it to be shown to a science class, but I see no legal reason why it can't be included in a religious studies or philosophy course. Check out: Life Without Evolution - A Comprehensive Deconstruction...

Darwin's Theory Of Evolution Darwin's Theory Of Evolution - The Premise Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers -- all related. Darwin's general theory presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely naturalistic (undirected) "descent with modification". That is, complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors naturally over time. In a nutshell, as random genetic mutations occur within an organism's genetic code, the beneficial mutations are preserved because they aid survival -- a process known as "natural selection." These beneficial mutations are passed on to the next generation. Over time, beneficial mutations accumulate and the result is an entirely different organism (not just a variation of the original, but an entirely different creature). Darwin's Theory of Evolution - Natural Selection While Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a relatively young archetype, the evolutionary worldview itself is as old as antiquity. Ancient Greek philosophers such as Anaximander postulated the development of life from non-life and the evolutionary descent of man from animal. Charles Darwin simply brought something new to the old philosophy -- a plausible mechanism called "natural selection." Natural selection acts to preserve and accumulate minor advantageous genetic mutations. Suppose a member of a species developed a functional advantage (it grew wings and learned to fly). Its offspring would inherit that advantage and pass it on to their offspring. The inferior (disadvantaged) members of the same species would gradually die out, leaving only the superior (advantaged) members of the species. Natural selection is the preservation of a functional advantage that enables a species to compete better in the wild. Natural selection is the naturalistic equivalent to domestic breeding. Over the centuries, human breeders have produced dramatic changes in domestic animal populations by selecting individuals to breed. Breeders eliminate undesirable traits gradually over time. Similarly, natural selection eliminates inferior species gradually over time. Darwin's Theory of Evolution - Slowly But Surely... Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a slow gradual process. Darwin wrote, "…Natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations; she can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by short and sure, though slow steps." [1] Thus, Darwin conceded that, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." [2] Such a complex organ would be known as an "irreducibly complex system". An irreducibly complex system is one composed of multiple parts, all of which are necessary for the system to function. If even one part is missing, the entire system will fail to function. Every individual part is integral. [3] Thus, such a system could not have evolved slowly, piece by piece. The common mousetrap is an everyday non-biological example of irreducible complexity. It is composed of five basic parts: a catch (to hold the bait), a powerful spring, a thin rod called "the hammer," a holding bar to secure the hammer in place, and a platform to mount the trap. If any one of these parts is missing, the mechanism will not work. Each individual part is integral. The mousetrap is irreducibly complex. [4] Darwin's Theory of Evolution - A Theory In Crisis Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a theory in crisis in light of the tremendous advances we've made in molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics over the past fifty years. We now know that there are in fact tens of thousands of irreducibly complex systems on the cellular level. Specified complexity pervades the microscopic biological world. Molecular biologist Michael Denton wrote, "Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world." [5] And we don't need a microscope to observe irreducible complexity. The eye, the ear and the heart are all examples of irreducible complexity, though they were not recognized as such in Darwin's day. Nevertheless, Darwin confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." [6] Footnotes: Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life," 1859, p. 162. Ibid. p. 158. Michael Behe, "Darwin's Black Box," 1996. "Unlocking the Mystery of Life," documentary by Illustra Media, 2002. Michael Denton, "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis," 1986, p. 250. Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life," 1859, p. 155.

“. . .I praise you because in an awe-inspiring way I am wonderfully made.. . .” … “. . .Your eyes even saw me as an embryo; All its parts were written in your book Regarding the days when they were formed, Before any of them existed.” - Ps 139: 14, 16 How did King David know that???

If the function of nucleus is replication,then how nucleus is control cell or some people called nucleus is brain of cell ? Why because nucleus function is replication please give me the answer I am biology student from India I have confusion.please don't ignore give the answer

I often read comments about the size of the universe and the arguments for extra terrestrial life. The whole idea highlights the ignorance of the general public regarding the odds of abiogenesis.