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Michael Behe

Biology

#163

World Rank

#292

Historical Rank

#100

USA Rank

Biochemistry

#74

World Rank

#94

Historical Rank

#46

USA Rank

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Michael Behe's Degrees

PhD Biochemistry University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Chemistry Drexel University

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Joseph Behe is an American biochemist and an advocate of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design . He 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. Behe advocates for the validity of the argument for irreducible complexity , 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.

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Michael Behe's Published Works

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Effects of methylation on a synthetic polynucleotide: the B--Z transition in poly(dG-m5dC).poly(dG-m5dC). (1981) (634)
Reply to My Critics: A Response to Reviews of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (2001) (297)
Species: A History of the Idea (2011) (140)
An overabundance of long oligopurine tracts occurs in the genome of simple and complex eukaryotes. (1995) (98)
The protein-folding problem: the native fold determines packing, but does packing determine the native fold? (1991) (97)
Effect of the B--Z transition in poly(dG-m5dC) . poly(dG-m5dC) on nucleosome formation. (1982) (84)
Binding of p-nitrophenyl phosphate and other aromatic compounds by beta-lactoglobulin. (1987) (69)
Changes in the helical repeat of poly(dG-m5 dC) · poly(dG-m5dC) and poly(dG-dC) · poly(dG-dC) associated with the B—Z transition (1981) (64)
The DNA sequence of the human beta-globin region is strongly biased in favor of long strings of contiguous purine or pyrimidine residues. (1987) (62)
Experimental evolution, loss-of-function mutations, and “the first rule of adaptive evolution” (2010) (60)
Temperature‐dependent conformational transitions in poly(dG‐dC) and poly(dG‐m5dC) (1985) (60)
Simulating evolution by gene duplication of protein features that require multiple amino acid residues (2004) (60)
Critical amount of oligovalent ion binding required for the B-Z transition of poly (dG-m5dC). (1984) (56)
Methylation and chromatin structure. (1983) (41)
Sickle hemoglobin gelation. Reaction order and critical nucleus size. (1978) (36)
B to Z transition of double-stranded poly[deoxyguanylyl(3'-5')-5-methyldeoxycytidine] in solution by phosphorus-31 and carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. (1983) (35)
The Edge of Evolution (2007) (31)
Poly(dA).poly(dT) forms very stable nucleosomes at higher temperatures. (1995) (28)
An oligopurine sequence bias occurs in eukaryotic viruses. (1988) (28)
Poly[d(A.T)] and other synthetic polydeoxynucleotides containing oligoadenosine tracts form nucleosomes easily. (1991) (26)
Irreducible Complexity: Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution (2004) (26)
The Modern Intelligent Design Hypothesis: Breaking Rules (2001) (22)
Quantitative assessment of the noncovalent inhibition of sickle hemoglobin gelation by phenyl derivatives and other known agents. (1979) (21)
Competitive nucleosome reconstitution of polydeoxynucleotides containing oligoguanosine tracts. (1989) (20)
CD studies of double‐stranded polydeoxynucleotides composed of repeating units of contiguous homopurine residues (1988) (20)
Mixed gelation theory. Kinetics, equilibrium and gel incorporation in sickle hemoglobin mixtures. (1979) (20)
Self-Organization and Irreducibly Complex Systems: A Reply to Shanks and Joplin (2000) (19)
Science and evidence for design in the universe : papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Wethersfield Institute, New York City, September 25, 1999 (2000) (17)
Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference (2011) (13)
Salt-induced Z-A-Z transition sequence in the mixed ribo-deoxyribo copolymer poly(rG-dC) X poly(rG-dC). (1984) (12)
The edge of intelligence (2009) (11)
Methylated pyrimidines stabilize an alternating conformation of poly(dA-dU).poly(dA-dU). (1985) (11)
Darwinism Defeated?: The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on Biological Origins (1999) (10)
Vacuum UV CD of the low‐salt Z‐forms of poly(rG‐dC)·poly(rG‐dC), and poly(dG‐m5dC)·poly(dG‐m5dC) (1986) (10)
Oligoadenosine tracts favor nucleosome formation. (1997) (9)
Nucleosome reconstitution of core-length poly(dG).poly(dC) and poly(rG-dC).poly(rG-dC). (1989) (8)
Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution (2019) (8)
Biological Information: New Perspectives (2013) (8)
A response to Michael Lynch (2005) (8)
Waiting Longer for Two Mutations (2009) (8)
Can you Believe in God and Evolution (2005) (8)
Sequence dependence of DNA structure. The B, Z, and A conformations of polydeoxynucleotides containing repeating units of 6 to 16 base pairs. (1988) (8)
Evidence for intelligent design from biochemistry (2005) (8)
Oligopurine · oligopyrimidine tracts do not have the same conformation as analogous polypurine · polypyrimidines (1991) (7)
Isolated oligopurine tracts do not significantly affect the binding of DNA to nucleosomes. (1992) (7)
Histone deletion mutants challenge the molecular clock hypothesis. (1990) (7)
Salt induced transitions between multiple conformations of poly (rG-m5dC).poly (rG-m5dC). (1985) (6)
Influence of tetraalkyl ammonium ions on the structure of poly (rG-dC).poly (rG-dC): unexpected transitions among the Z, A and B conformations. (1987) (6)
Structure of nucleosomal DNA at high salt concentration as probed by hydroxyl radical. (1993) (5)
Getting There First: An Evolutionary Rate Advantage for Adaptive Loss-of-Function Mutations (2013) (5)
Purification and properties of an acid phosphoprotein phosphatase from lactating bovine mammary gland with activity toward phosphotyrosine. (1988) (5)
The B-Z transition of a polynucleotide with a 10-base pair repeating sequence. (1986) (5)
Tracts of adenosine and cytidine residues in the genomes of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. (1998) (4)
Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better by Nancy Cartwright (review) (2021) (4)
Embryology and Evolution (1998) (3)
Eukaryotic DNA does not form nucleosomes as readily as some prokaryotic DNA. (1991) (3)
A Response to Critics of Darwin's Black Box (2002) (2)
CHROMATIN CONFORMATION AND GENE ACTIVITY (1982) (2)
Darwinism and design. (1997) (2)
The B-Z transition in supercoiled DNA depends on sequence beyond nearest-neighbors. (1989) (2)
Can a Scientific Theory Ameliorate a Theological Difficulty? (2008) (2)
EVIDENCE FOR DESIGN IN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY : FROM THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE 1 (2006) (2)
Sequence Dependence of DNA Structure (1988) (2)
Several Polynucleotide‐modifying Enzymes Are Active on the A Conformation (1986) (1)
Intelligent Design as an Alternative Explanation for the Existence of Biomolecular Machines (2010) (1)
Non-conservative mutations are well tolerated in the globular region of yeast histone H4. (1996) (1)
Addressing Cumulative Selection (2007) (1)
Miller, Kenneth R. Finding Darwin’s God: a Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (2001) (1)
The Positive Side of Intelligent Design: A Response to Loren Haarsma (2007) (1)
Co-polymer tracts in eukaryotic, prokaryotic, and organellar DNA. (1991) (1)
Anoverabundance oflongoligopurine tracts occurs inthegenome ofsimple andcomplex eukaryotes (1995) (0)
When Science Renounces a Facet of Reason: Biology's Choice Between Solipsism and Intelligent Design (2008) (0)
Effect of the B-Z transition in poly4 nucleosome formation (2016) (0)
Understanding Evolution (1991) (0)
Species: A History of the Idea (review) (2011) (0)
Do Car Engines Run on Lugnuts? A Response to Ken Miller & Judge Jones's Straw Tests of Irreducible Complexity for the Bacterial Flagellum (2006) (0)
tracts in eukaryotic, Co-polymer (1991) (0)
Arguments should be accurately represented (2003) (0)
The National Academy of ... Religion? (2000) (0)
RUNNING HEAD : Irreducible complexity (2004) (0)
Randomness or Design in Evolution? (1998) (0)
Time 100 scientists & thinkers. Richard Dawkins. (2007) (0)
Debating Design: Irreducible Complexity (2004) (0)
Nature's Destiny By Michael J. Denton (review) (2015) (0)
(left-handed helical DNA/circular dichroism/polyelectrolyte) (0)
The Trouble with Thomists (2018) (0)
Evolution — the great debate: Letters to the Editor (2009) (0)
Theoretical Molecular Biology: Introductory Comments (2013) (0)
The Argument from Biological Complexity (2021) (0)

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