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Michael Behe

1952 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Behe is the 525th most popular chemist (down from 510th in 2019), the 7,814th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,458th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Michael Behe ranks 525 out of 602. Before him are Omowunmi Sadik, Nina Andreyeva, Bruce Ames, James Smithson, Charles Blagden, and Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch. After him are Darleane C. Hoffman, Eugen Baumann, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Robert Jarvik, Marc Delafontaine, and Margaret Oakley Dayhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Michael Behe ranks 410. Before him are André Comte-Sponville, Mario Runco Jr., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Allen Collins, Ulrich Wehling, and Joe Earl. After him are Linda Martin, Sushma Swaraj, David R. Ellis, Randy Jones, Tomas Ledin, and Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Behe ranks 7,816 out of 20,380. Before him are Tony Gilroy (1956), Robert Chartoff (1933), Kim Dickens (1965), Alberta Hunter (1895), Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), and Tim Howard (1979). After him are Joyce Van Patten (1934), Annie Wersching (1977), Thelma Todd (1906), Ann Druyan (1949), Brent W. Jett Jr. (1958), and Keri Russell (1976).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Michael Behe ranks 91. Before him are Myrtle Bachelder (1908), Donella Meadows (1941), Allen J. Bard (1933), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), Helen Murray Free (1923), and Bruce Ames (1928). After him are Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Robert Jarvik (1946), Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925), Mary L. Good (1931), Bruce Alberts (1938), and Emma P. Carr (1880).

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