About Michael Behe
Michael Joseph Behe ( BEE-hee; born January 18, 1952) is an American biochemist and an advocate of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design (ID). Behe serves as professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and as a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He advocates for the validity of the argument for irreducible complexity (IC), which claims that some biochemical structures are too complex to be explained by known evolutionary mechanisms and are therefore probably the result of intelligent design. Behe has testified in several court cases related to intelligent design, including the court case Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, where his views were cited in the ruling that intelligent design is not science and is religious in nature. As of 2014, Behe was unfavorably regarded by the scientific community; the scientific community had "thoroughly rejected" his work on intelligent design. == Early life and education == Behe was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Bishop McDevitt High School. He graduated from Drexel University with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1974. He then earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Investigation of some physical chemical factors affecting the gelation of sickle cell hemoglobin".
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