The More Science Knows, the More It Points to God

June 09, 2026
00:00 14:14
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Dr. Michael Behe, biochemist and professor at Lehigh University, has spent his career making a case that most scientists would rather not hear. The concept he became famous for, irreducible complexity, argues that the molecular machinery inside living cells is so intricately assembled that removing a single part causes the entire system to collapse. Darwin thought the closer you looked at biology, the simpler it would get. The opposite turned out to be true, and that discovery has never stopped being inconvenient for strict materialism.

Science pointing beyond itself, the mind behind the machinery, and what a young generation deserves to know: Dr. Behe walks through why he joined The Story of Everything, how the fine-tuning of the universe and the information embedded in DNA both point insistently toward a designer, and why the mainstream scientific establishment continues to resist conclusions that the evidence increasingly demands. He also shares his go-to argument for God — not from biochemistry, but from the one thing every person already knows they have — a mind — and why that single observation, followed honestly, leads somewhere materialists cannot explain away.

Highlights

  • Why irreducible complexity is not going away and why evolutionary biology is still fighting to ignore it
  • How Darwin's assumption that cells were simple blobs of protoplasm turned out to be completely wrong
  • Why the more science advances, the stronger the evidence for purposeful design becomes
  • The fine-tuning argument and why the universe sits on a knife's edge to allow life to exist at all
  • His go-to argument for God, starting not with biochemistry but with the reality of the human mind
  • Why the mainstream media and academic establishment push the science-versus-faith narrative against their own evidence
  • What books like The God Delusion have done to students, and why this film is a direct answer to that
  • Why he believes young people who feel like accidents need to hear that science itself says otherwise

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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and culture for more than two decades. His stories have appeared in the Knoxville News Sentinel, Christianity Today, Toronto Star and Baptist Press.

Michael enjoys popcorn, college football, history, hiking, growing tomatoes, and watching his children play sports. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, husband to his amazing wife, Julie, and the father of four super kids.
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